Please stop by the English Department office (Rome Hall 760) for tea, cookies, and sherry.
If you are a current student, you are welcome to stop by for tea and cookies. We are legally obligated to slap your hand HARD if you reach for the sherry.
Thanks to the following recent supporters of the English department: Ms. Rochelle E. Deavy Dr. Charles M. Hanson Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Hickok Ms. Erika Lauren Kauder Mrs. Michal Fromer Mufson Dr. Jeanne Marie Rose Ms. Sara Ann Schwartz Ms. Madeleine A. Starkey Ms. Kelley Cherise Stokes Mr. Jon K. Williams These generous donors…
Calder posted some excellent links, and I want to add one more. I’m a big fan of Sixth & I, a historic synagogue at the heart of downtown DC that provides a home to all kinds of arts and literature events. Many of these events having nothing to do with Judaism: the building is as…
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
E.L. Doctorow reading at Funger Hall last week. E.L. Doctorow’s campus visit and reading last week were a high point of the spring semester for the English Department. Doctorow visited Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the morning, talking to students about his novel The Book of Daniel, and then gave a public…
What are you doing this summer? Avoid the boring internship or ice cream parlor job and travel to Italy for a poetry workshop instead! Professor Jane Shore will be teaching a poetry workshop this summer at Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival. The workshop runs from July 18-25 in Vietri sul Mare, Italy! You can…
GPAs are for losers. Or so say the English Majors who work in the English Department Office (and with that attitude they will be working here forever because they will not get into a selective graduate school). Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Time: 7:30pm – 11:30pm Location: GW Mitchell Hall Theater Street: 514 19th St….
