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From GW Today: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Menachem Wecker’s account of the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies: Gas Chambers and the Metro Lecture series opens with contrast of spaces for “worthy” and “unworthy” citizens by disability studies pioneer and author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. By Menachem Wecker Although Washingtonians often love to hate the Metro, they do not compare…
An Interview with Prof. Robert Ganz, who delivers an honorary ‘Last Lecture’ Friday
Prof. Ganz enjoying time outside of the English Department Prof. Robert Ganz, an integral component of the GW English Department since 1964, will retire this spring. As a valued professor and scholar of Robert Frost and modernism, Prof. Ganz has seen the growth of the GW English department, as well as the different eras filled…
Fat Studies in the New Yorker
The Fat Studies Reader, a collection of essays to which GW English graduate student Julia McCrossin contributed a piece, was mentioned in a recent New Yorker article: So what’s wrong with putting on an extra pound, or ten pounds, or, for that matter, a hundred and ten? According to the contributors to “The Fat Studies…
Stressed? Join the club
It’s that time of year, we know. We see it in your faces: worn out, sleep deprived, pale. We see how red your eyes are from peering at the computer screen, and that your fingers are turning into little nubs because you’ve been pounding at the keyboard. Your blood has more caffeine coursing through it…
Free Music. Legal, Too.
Forget that new three-tiered price plan from iTunes. Get your music free from Gelman Library. Humanities Librarian Cathy Eisenhower writes: The Library pays for it, but you can stream it for free through your desktop and create playlists–for yourself and/or your students. I’ve been listening to spoken word recordings in Smithsonian Global Sound this afternoon…
Jeffrey J. Cohen at Hamilton College
Professor and chair of the English department Jeffrey J. Cohen just presented from his book in progress at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. His public lecture was called “Through a Monster’s Eyes: The Landscape of Postcolonial England.” An analysis of the strange case of two green children discovered in Woolpit (England) in the twelfth…