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Missing Suhayl Saadi? You might be interested in this British Council website, which brings together information on the many UK artists the Council has brought to the United States.
Missing Suhayl Saadi? You might be interested in this British Council website, which brings together information on the many UK artists the Council has brought to the United States.
From the latest edition: Life, in verse By Jaime Ciavarra Poet Jane Shore is moved by ordinary moments. The GW professor of English captures life’s everyday details with lyrical language and colorful verse. When she drives her daughter to the hair salon or reminisces about a piece of furniture in her mother’s home, Shore finds…
From today’s Hatchet, a piece on Prof. Robert McRuer’s innovative new class by Gabriella Schwarz: Most field trips for GW classes require a Metro farecard, but passports were necessary for 13 students in an English course this fall. The class, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” taught by professor Robert McRuer, went to the Czech…
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The English Department was sad to learn of the recent passing on August 25 of a beloved colleague, Edward R. Weismiller. We invite all who knew Prof. Weismiller, and those who want to find out about this remarkable man, to attend a celebration of his life on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. in Rome…
Michael Chabon is many things. A 45 year old male. A Pulitzer Prize-winner. A Jewish-American author. A true geek. The author, best known for 2000’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, doesn’t like to be referred to by a single, restrictive label. Multiple labels he can tolerate, however. If you keep up with this…
by J J Cohen From Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, writing in The Chronicle: The alleviation of human suffering, the restoration of opportunity, and the resurrection of confidence must be our top priorities. But the present crisis must not be the horizon of our thinking; our most immediate concerns…