Job Search Workshops September 11 and September 18
Monday September 11 @ 11:00-12:00
Monday September 11 @ 11:00-12:00
Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day. View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…
Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural studies, critical theory, and literary analysis. This event was organized by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare, who (among other professors in the department) has taught our course on Critical Methods. We hope this will be…
The English Department is happy to announce that a new university seminar we proposed has been funded. The Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (MEMS) proposal is one fruit of an effort the department is making to foster the study of early Britain within a transnational frame in our department. With resources like the Folger Shakespeare…
GW English, We are prose. Remember in High School when people gathered in groups that excluded you? Don’t let that happen again. The English Department is BOWING TO THE DEMANDS of its majors (specifically to an agitated group of upperclasspeople whom we very much like) and declaring that Thursday April 2 2009 will be our…
The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year. On Friday, September 7, at 3:30 PM, former GW English professor and Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Gail Kern Paster, will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Program, directed by Alexa Alice…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…