Spring Break
The English Department wishes all of it majors a restful, enjoyable spring break. We hope that if you’ve taken off for Cancun or Fort Lauderdale, you’ve at least brought your Riverside Shakespeare along with you.
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Our beloved colleague Maxine Clair is retiring. I’d like to share with you some comments from the student evaluations from her very last class. Professor Clair will be missed dearly. Each class with her is like a small step forward in my life as a student, and also a contribution to whatever I might achieve…
From Alumni Relations
The Office of Alumni Relations launched the redesigned GW Alumni website. You can view the redesigned site at http://alumni.gwu.edu/index.cfm. Alumni, please update your contact information: www.alumni.gwu.edu/update. And do not forget the following: — Free lifetime email accounts, powered by Google (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/email/index.html) — Alumni Travel program 2009 destinations (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/travel/index.html) — Alumni Course Audit program (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/courseaudit/index.html) Share…
Get to Know Your TA: Lowell Duckert
We hope you have enjoyed the Get to Know Your TA feature. This will be our third and final post in the series. It was a lot of fun getting to know these three TAs and we hope now that you have read the posts, you will feel free to stop by their offices for…
Jane Shore Reviewed on NPR
It’s National Poetry Month … and National Public Radio celebrated with a mention of GW’s own Jane Shore and her remarkable new book of poetry A Yes-Or-No Answer. From the NPR website: There’s blooming out — and darkening in — in Jane Shore’s collection, A Yes-Or-No Answer. This is a domestic book, filled with elegies…
Welcome from the New Chair
No, that’s not me. That’s the guy who played the Maytag Repairman on TV. More about that later. It’s a pleasure to have been handed the keys to this blog from Jeffrey Cohen, our Department’s Chair Emeritus (a title I have just now invented and summarily bestowed). To be honest, it’s also a bit daunting….
Special Summer Course in York
Medieval Drama in Early England(ENG 172.60)The course examines early English drama through the lens of cultural adaptation and will culminate with a trip to York, England to watch a modern production of medieval mystery plays. Most of us have had some encounter with early English drama through the works of Shakespeare. Medieval drama, in comparison,…