Deadline approaching for GW-Folger seminar

Prof. Margaret Soltan has been asked to be part of the second cohort of professors to give lectures at Udemy, a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Her first lecture, “Poetry and the Arrest of Life,” is here.  (Scroll down to “poetry.”) Publisher’s Weekly gave Prof. Jane Shore‘s That Said: New and Selected Poems, a starred review….

During the month of April three gifts arrived from donors kind enough to sponsor our departmental mission. Donations came from: Mr and Mrs Philippe C. Desloovere (parents of a current student) Dr. Malcolm Edward O’Hagan (class of 1966) Mr. John George Sussek III (class of 1979) The generosity of our alumni, parents of students, and…

Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…

  Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman, who kicks off this year’s Jewish Literature Live readings, is one of those remarkable polymaths: an award-winning fiction writer whose “day job” is as a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.    His first novel, From the Far Euphrates, was an LA Times Book Review…

We are very happy to welcome the medievalist Jonathan Hsy to our faculty. We asked Professor Hsy to say a few words about himself, and he writes: I received an MA from Stanford and my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and I’m excited to be joining the English department at GW this fall. I…

This is an image that has been circulating online since last week, when The New Yorker magazine posted it on its blog. [Click here for a link to the White House Flickr site, where you can see a huge image of the same.] As an English professor and as someone who loves to be edited…