Spring Break

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…

As you plan your end of the year giving, we hope that you will keep the GW English Department in mind. Here is some of the faculty research that the generosity of our supporters fosters: Jonathan Gil Harris ·       Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford University Press) to be published in May 2010. Editing collection of essays…

If you were paying close attention during Michael Chabon’s public reading last month, you would have caught a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Gods of Mars in the second story he read, “First First Father.” In the story, Chabon compared his experience to the unknowability of a nine color spectrum, which is experienced…

Earlier this morning I directed your attention to one article from The Hatchet. Now let me call your attention to another, in which it is revealed that the chair of the Sociology Department is also a crime busting superhero. Note to all English Department faculty, students, and alumni: you will never read an article in…

Prof. Thomas Mallon’s new book about Watergate appeals even to those born after Pres. Nixon’s 1974 resignation. “I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.“-Richard Nixon“And Watergate? Well, I’d…

Congratulations to our 2010 graduates! I had the pleasure of marching with students at Saturday’s CCAS Celebration, which went amazingly smoothly, given the challenging logistics. (In the photos posted here, we’re in Funger Hall, eagerly awaiting the call to march into the Smith Center.) Most people’s names were pronounced correctly, and there were photo ops…