Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Death and the Subaltern”

In February, GW English Professor Thomas Mallon’s new novel Watergate will be published by Pantheon. (Go here to pre-order your copy.) A historical novel that “conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now,” Watergate is a highly anticipated work–and the first…

This fall we’ve introduced a new undergraduate literature course that places American texts within a hemispheric frame. Taught by Gayle Wald, the class has proven extraordinarily popular. Weekly lectures are coupled to small discussion section meetings. The course is writing intensive. Here is the syllabus. —————————-ENGL 40W.10: Literature of the Americas“Slavery and the Circum-Atlantic”Fall 2007Prof….

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…

We have our blog. We have our Facebook page. We offer the most cutting edge courses in the university, if not the galaxy. So why is it that when we finally have a cute graphic to assist with our strategic plan for utter media domination, the University phases out our hippo? Should we have chosen…

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The English Department office has been ornamented, garnished, embellished, trimmed and bedecked for the season. Stop by, grab some chocolate, and see if this year’s theme (“Decorating to Annoy”) has been a success. Share on FacebookTweet