“Touching the Past” Symposium Friday

The English Department is pleased to announced that Edward P. Jones will be teaching a special one credit course for a small number of GW students. English 193 (Studies in Contemporary Literature) will meet four Monday evenings in February from 6-7:30. Students will read four novels and discuss them with Mr. Jones: David Anthony Durham,…

Fall 2008 Engl. 172.10 Freud, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky Elective English 172.11 Medieval Drama pre-1800; or pre-1700 Engl. 172.12 American Coming of Age Literature 20th Century Spring 09 Engl. 172.10 Central European Modernism Elective Engl. 172.11 19th Century British Novel & Empire 19th Cent; or 1700-1900 Engl. 172.12 Disability & Literature Minority; or Theory/Cult. Studies. Engl. 172.80…

For the 2008-09 academic year, Professor Jonathan Gil Harris will be leaving his post at GW to assume his fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC.Prof. Gil Harris will be doing research at the Folger for his new book Shakespeare and Literary Theory, which has already been commissioned by Oxford University Press…

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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,…

We know it’s early to be advertising this, but why not place the date on your calendar now? Edward P. Jones, the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, will give his inaugural reading on Thursday January 29 2009 in the Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and Public Affairs, 805 21st Street NW)….