READING YOUR WORK ALOUD
The JMM Reading series and the GW English Department present:
Lisa Zeidner Lisa Zeidner, the critically acclaimed author of Layover and Love Bomb, will be visiting GW on January 24th! Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels as well as two books of poetry. She teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Zeidner is the first author in a series this spring at GW,…
Professor Jim English On Wednesday March 5, 2014, the English Department’s British and Postcolonial Cluster hosted Professor Jim English (University of Pennsylvania) for an exciting lecture entitled, “Translated from the English: British Reality on the Global Screen.” This fantastic event was co-hosted by the University Honors Program and was made possible by a generous gift…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series picks up again this Thursday, on November 9th, with a reading from New York Times Bestselling Author, Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Her latest book, Balm, has received widespread acclaim. The Washington Post wrote, “In gorgeous, compassionate prose, Perkins-Valdez continues our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities,” and…
Eventbrite RSVP. Please circulate. Please join the Africana Studies Program for The George Washington University’s Annual DC Emancipation Day Lecture “Frederick Douglass’s Tales of Abraham Lincoln” Robert S. Levine Professor of English, The University of Maryland General Editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature Drawing from his forthcoming book, The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard, 2016), Levine will…
MG Lord is a cultural critic and writer. Her books include Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and Astroturf: The Private Life of Rocket Science, among other publications. She also worked as a political cartoonist for Newsday. She is Assistant Professor of the practice of English at University of Southern California. Join us for her reading December…
December 10 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m): One thousand copies of The Known World will be given away for FREE in the Marvin Center January 29 (5 PM) Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading, introduced by GW President Steven Knapp (Jack Morton Auditorium, School of Media and Public Affairs) February 18 (6:30 PM) “Knowing The Known…