Creative Writing Courses with Jason Filardi and Edward P. Jones
The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome Hall 760.
The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome Hall 760.
If you haven’t already marked your calendars, get our your smart phones, pens, and day planners, and reserve Friday, October 22 for a day in celebration of Professor Emerita of English Judith A.A. Plotz. The “Plotzfest,” as we’ve dubbed it, in a reflection of our affectionate regard for Judy Plotz, will feature a mini-symposium featuring…
The course descriptions are online. Registration begins this week. Faculty will be holding extra office hours to lift holds and for advising. Share on FacebookTweet
Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading TONIGHT at 5 PMThe Jack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, First FloorFree and open to all, though seating is limited The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World, Mr. Jones is the Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English at GW for Spring 2009 Share on FacebookTweet
CANCELLATION The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information. Share on FacebookTweet
This morning I sent the following email to Helen Cannaday-Saulny, GW’s Assistant Vice President for Student Academic Support Services. I don’t understand why every college campus in the United States but ours (oh and possibly Bob Jones University) is fringed by funky noncorporate coffee houses where students and faculty hang out together, go to poetry…
In 2006 I was elected by my colleagues to serve a three year term as chair of the English Department. Doing so has been an honor, and a privilege. I know that sounds cliché, but I make the statement with feeling and without irony. I have the best colleagues, we teach the brightest and most…