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We need your help!
Help design a T-shirt for GWU English! The English Department is sponsoring a contest to design a T-shirt. Submit your (funny) phrase or design idea to chair@gwu.edu If your phrase or design is selected, you win a free T-shirt, and all the glory appertaining thereto. The winner of the T-shirt contest will be announced at…
Update from Ann Romines
Although on sabbatical, professor of American literature Ann Romines has been busy. She writes that the following projects have been her preoccupations: “Why We Read–and Re-read–My Antonia,” talk for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program, Aurora, IL Oct. 2007. “Letters Home to Red Cloud: Willa Cather Writes to Her Parents.” Western Literature Association….
T Shirt Tuesday: Success!
[illustration: gang of festive t-shirt wearers in English Department main office. Note the angelic backlight that illuminates all who wear our official shirt.] So Christina Katopodis took us literally: she sent a picture of her GW English T shirt on a houseplant — a shrub named “Gertrude” (though wouldn’t it make more sense to name…
Alumna Update: Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney, a 2002 graduate, brings us much pride as a GW alum. Through my email exchanges with Kathleen, I have been continually impressed with how accomplished and gracious she is. Her thorough and insightful answers prove what a talented writer she is, and I’m sure many others will agree that we can all learn…
Adam Kirsch Talk Cancelled for Thursday Night
CANCELLATION The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information. Share on FacebookTweet
And our lounge today
We’re getting there. Paining is being done today, and new carpets are being installed tomorrow. By next week we will have a new–if empty–lounge! Look for a new refrigerator and new seating soon! Share on FacebookTweet