l’shana tova

For reasons that will become more clear very soon, may we suggest that you add to your summer reading list a work by Edward P. Jones? Perhaps his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World? Or maybe his breathtaking collection of stories All Aunt Hagar’s Children? These are books that are well worth your time…

A Special Alumni EventPlease join the English Department for a panel discussion on “Literature in a Global Age,” the past and future of writing in English. A panel of authors and critics will lead a lively discussion of literature familiar and new, exploring the art that happens when cultures meet — and clash. The panel…

In the Washington City Paper blog Mark Athitakis writes: As you may have heard, some smart guy who helps give out the Nobel Prize in literature recently said that Americans are simply too “insular” and possessed of a restricting “ignorance” to produce great writing. So we have much to learn from the arrival of Suhayl…

At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…

The 2011-2012 English Graduate Student Association announces the arrival of the GW EGSA Blog! Here is a report by graduate student Tawnya Ravy: In an effort to stay in touch with English graduate students and to offer regular updates on events, we decided to create this blog. We see it as an exciting opportunity to…

Our gratitude to those who generously supported us last month: Ms. Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) Mr. Lawrence M. Dennee (parent) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (1987) Prof. Christopher Sten (faculty) Ms. Jennifer Lyman Wagner (1990) All contributions directly support our department’s mission. You can donate online here. Please make sure that you designate your gift to…