Postcolonial Intimacies, Race, and Transnational America: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. This Monday 3:45-5:15 PM!

Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the  2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings!  Friday, February 12th from   9 AM- 6:30 PM  Gelman 219   This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…

(Thomas Mallon on tour last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Photo credit:  Robert Birnbaum) Thomas Mallon, acclaimed novelist and former Director of Creative Writing at GWU, has just published his ninth novel, Finale, to wide critical acclaim. His account of the Reagan administration “blends his singular knowledge of political history with his limitless imagination to capture…

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The Freer and Sackler Museums of Asian Art are finally reopening, and it’s likely to be an exciting celebration. There will be food, music, and of course interactive and informational presentations. One such activity is The Art of Illuminations where you can learn about the tradition of decorating the pages of Islamic books. Artists Lubna Zahid and Sughra Hussainy…

NADEEM ASLAM Feb. 1-29: British Council USA/Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence at GW: U.K. novelist, Nadeem Aslam (author of MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS and SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS). In addition to visiting classes, leading a 700-series 1-credit one-month reading course, etc., Nadeem will participate in three public appearances at GW: Feb. 7 — 7…

GW Arts Initiative Program: Poetry Reading: The Best Dressed Girl in School “I could make you the best dressed girl in school,” my mother said, “but I won’t.” GW Professor of English Jane Shore grew up in the apartment over Corduroy Village, her parents’ dress store in North Bergen, New Jersey. She will read poems…