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Thomas Mallon with Daniel Day-Lewis On Saturday, October 7, Professor Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Professor Mallon is the author of eight novels, including Watergate: A Novel. last weekend. He is the third member of George Washington University’s Faculty, and…

Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities In his book Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty suggests that “[w]e need to consider why we find anachronism productive.” And in this symposium on slippages and slidings of time, place, space, and identity, we hope to explore just that. Despite our discipline’s best efforts to encode…

Below is a copy of a document I’ve just sent along to our dean and Advancement Office. Each department chair has been asked to come up with a Wish List. This dream of financial salvation will apparently be kept in mind should an eager donor or a genie who grants wishes suddenly materialize. I thought…

The English Department is very happy to welcome three new writers to the ranks of our Creative Writing faculty. All will be joining us this semester to teach our popular ENGL 1210 (formerly ENGL 81), Introduction to Creative Writing. LOUIS BAYARD is a graduate of Princeton and Northwestern universities. His novels include The Pale Blue…

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The Religion Thing, a world premiere comedy by GW playwriting professor Renee Calarco, kicks off Theater J’s “Locally Grown: Community Supported Art/From Our Own Garden” Initiative. In it, according to Theater J, Mo and Brian are a picture-perfect DC couple: they’re smart, they’re witty, and they have a beautifully remodeled kitchen. But when Mo’s best…