Inaugural poets
Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know.
Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know.
GW’s inaugural British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam’s newest novel, The Wasted Vigil has just been released. Mr. Aslam read from the novel at the numerous events that the English department hosted to celebrate his residency, and I, like many of those I talked to, was greatly impressed by his reading of the first…
As many of this blog’s readers will have heard, beloved professor of English and longtime director of undergraduate advising Lee Salamon retired at the end of the school year. In recognition of her scholarly achievements and distinguished record of service, Professor Salamon was awarded emerita status at commencement. We hope to see her around the…
Spring break has officially started (although some of you left yesterday, I’m jealous). Just because you plan on taking a week off from Geoffrey Chaucer and James Joyce, doesn’t mean you should stop reading. It’s time for “pleasure reading”! Maybe those words seem foreign to over caffeinated English majors who pound out more papers than…
Former Featured Alumnus Michael Fauver has a new blog, named after his book in progress Why I Won’t Remember Who You Were. Check it out. Share on FacebookTweet
Alumna Beth Lattin (’08) has a piece in Forbes about graduate school, debt, and planning for the future in uncertain economic times. Check it out! Share on FacebookTweet
Jeanne M. Rose graduated with a degree in English twelve years ago. We asked her to let us know how she is doing. She writes: After graduating from GWU in 1995, I enrolled at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. My graduate work focused on the relationship between literature and composition, and my dissertation…