Nalini Natarajan: “Atlantic Gandhi, Caribbean Gandhian”

Tony Kushner will be arriving in  20 DAYS! http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Tony+Kushner/tony-kushner-2013-writers-guild-awards-press-room-01.html Tony Kushner is coming to visit GW through the Jewish Literature Live Program thanks to a generous grant from David Bruce Smith. In conjunction with Kushner’s visit we have and will be running the ACTING UP film series and a series of Play Workshops focusing on…

Former GW English Creative Writing Professor Jody Bolz has a new book of poetry out and will be reading at Politics & Prose on Sunday, January 12th, at 1:00. Shadow Play will be published by Turning Point Books in mid-December: Shadow Play, a novella in verse by Jody Bolz Hypnotic and provocative by turns, Shadow Play retraces a journey across Asia in…

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Professor Gayle Wald will read from her new book Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe at local bookstore Politics and Prose today at 1 PM. Look for her as well at Busboys and Poets on Wednesday March 7 at 6:30. Share on FacebookTweet

English graduate students at GW are a busy and productive group. In addition to the usual–taking classes, studying for and taking graduate exams, writing master’s and PhD theses, teaching and TAing–they do a tremendous amount of work organizing social and academic activities. These include research discussion groups, dissertation reading groups, and the occasional EGSA night…

Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day.  View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…