Listen to GW English Ph.D. Dolen Perkins-Valdez in discussion with NPR’s Lynn Neary on a recent episode of the radio show “Tell Me More.” Dolen is promoting her new book Wench, which is set at an Ohio resort where white male slaveholders take their enslaved black mistresses. The book is based on an actual resort that existed in antebellum times. Dolen will be reading on campus later this semester.
Here is a photograph of acclaimed British writer and public intellectual Howard Jacobson in warmer climes. Howard has been “in residence” since Monday, but the weather gods seem intent on making it impossible for us to hold any classes with him. But we will not be cowed by Snowpocalypse 2010. We are stronger than that.Show…
These days, I can barely keep up with the accolades being garnered by English Department faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Yesterday, we got the great good news that Prof. Judith Plotz is a winner of this year’s George Washington Award, one of the highest honors the University confers. I’ll blog more about Prof. Plotz, who…
In May we honored our graduating seniors and MA and PhD students. But we’re also please to have two of our faculty member honored for their teaching. Holly Dugan, assistant professor of English, is the recipient of a Bender Teaching Award for outstanding teaching for the year 2011, in the general recognition category. Endowed by…
Hello everybody, my name is Rajiv Menon and I am the English department’s new communications liaison. I am a junior, majoring in English and International Affairs. In addition to working with the English department, I also intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and tutor at GW’s writing center. Also, in addition to writing…
Medieval Drama in Early England(ENG 172.60)The course examines early English drama through the lens of cultural adaptation and will culminate with a trip to York, England to watch a modern production of medieval mystery plays. Most of us have had some encounter with early English drama through the works of Shakespeare. Medieval drama, in comparison,…
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