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“Sister Rosetta’s Stone”
Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…
Student Poetry Contest Elicits 41 Entries
The English Department thanks the forty-one students who submitted poems for our first annual Poetry Contest. The winner will be announced on this blog in April. Share on FacebookTweet
On Pulitzer Prizes and Comic Books
Mention the Pulitzer Prize, and you’ll conjure images of a weathered novelist, scowling over the rim of his snifter. If the Pulitzer laureates at GW are any indication, however, a comic book sketch is a more accurate image. In the span of two weeks, the GW English Department has hosted Michael Chabon and Art Spiegelman,…
Tara Wallace Publishes “Imperial Characters”
Congratulations to Prof. Tara Wallace, whose book Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature is now out in print from Bucknell University Press, in its Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture series edited by Greg Clingham. During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony…
Your Homework Assignment for This Weekend
1. Go to this film, and thereby support GW English alumnus Jason Filardi. 2. Enjoy with some popcorn. 3. Tell your professor on Monday that the reason you didn’t get all your reading done is that the department chair commanded you to see an enjoyable film with popcorn on the side, and can you please…
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