Fall 2017: Literature and the Environment
This seminar explores how the nonhuman world is depicted in literature and film, and the value of sustained attentiveness to environments with these works and within the larger world.
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Fall 2016 Course: Vikings, Mongols, Moors
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Fall 2018 Course Offerings: The 19th Century British Novel and Slow Reading Virginia Woolf
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It’s National Poetry Month & Famous GW Citizens Are Reading Poems!
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