Beth Lattin in Forbes

On this, the first day of classes, my colleagues in the English Department and I would like to welcome you back to GW and wish you a good semester. Please subscribe to or bookmark this blog to keep up to date on events and important information about the major. You may also wish to become…

GWU’s Jewish Literature Live course (taught by Prof. Faye Moskowitz) and GW’s collaboration with the British Council on its U.K. Writer-in-Residence Program converge for one afternoon only: Friday February 26, 2-4 p.m., Rome Hall 352. What do we mean today when we say “Jewish writing”? Do we mean writers who identify as Jews? Do we…

One day Thomas Mallon looked out his office window in Rome Hall and had a strange sense of déja vu. “I look out into the apartment of one of my characters,” he said. Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers was set in 1950s DC, at which point the dorm West End was an apartment where he placed…

Inside HigherEd, a popular and respected website that focuses upon issues in postsecondary education, features an excerpt from a recent book by two GW English Department faculty. Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan’s Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book argues for the return of aesthetics to the…

Despite my reputation as Mean Old Professor Cohen, my former student Ivan Kander recently friended me on Facebook. He must be over the trauma of my exams — and considering that he graduated only a year ago (2007), that is a remarkably swift recovery. Ivan writes: During my time at GW, I was a very…

The June 2006 edition of By George! includes the following words about two overachieving professors of English, Robert McRuer and Jane Shore: Associate Professor of English Robert McRuer was researching and writing about lesbian and gay studies—or “queer theory”—and AIDS cultural theory when he was asked by a member of his local reading group to…