End of Year Giving
Follow this link to contribute. Please make sure you check the last category, “Other,” and designate the English Department.
Thank you … and best wishes for the new year.
Follow this link to contribute. Please make sure you check the last category, “Other,” and designate the English Department.
Thank you … and best wishes for the new year.
Our new lounge Our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, Tim Johnston Our office coffee maker and candy bowl Our connections to GW MEMSI and Africana Studies Jewish Literature Live with Prof. Faye Moskowitz Our office staff: Constance Kibler, Linda Terry, and work-study students Elisa Valero and Tori Kerr The EGSA! Our majors in English, Creative Writing,…
Media Credit: Aude White/Hatchet photographerFrom today’s edition: English department hosts renowned Jewish authorMichael Chabon delivers reading in Jack Morton by Joe MancinikHatchet Reporter Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s reading in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday night included pieces ranging from his thoughts on President Obama’s election to his own son’s circumcision. Chabon appeared as part…
The Children’s Literature Association, or ChLA, is an organization devoted to encouraging high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children’s literature–a field more or less “invented” in 1973, when a group of professors set out to remedy the scholarly silence around–even embarrassment about–literature written for children. Every year the organization hosts a national…
Last December, the English Department gave out 200 copies of Kalooki Nights, the challenging, sprawling, inspired, and ambitious 2006 novel by English writer Howard Jacobson, this year’s British Council UK Writer in Residence. Jacobson is a novelist, broadcaster, and journalist; London’s Independent, which publishes his weekly column, calls him an “acerbic cultural critic … known…
Please stop by the English Department office on the seventh floor of Rome Hall and contribute to the endeavor we’ve christened the Sticky Words Project. Our goal: cover the entire loooong wall in front of our seminar room (Rome 771) in quotations inscribed upon Post-It Notes. Your part of the mission: stop by and jot…
The new semester is almost upon us: alarmingly (at least to me) GW classes begin BEFORE Labor Day this year. I am certain that some cosmic injunction has been broken, and am hard at work trying to stop it … but without much success so far. This summer we have been renovating Rome Hall 771,…