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Our Annual Event is Upon Us! Register soon! Check out “Lecture: Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation in the 21st Century”  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-shakespeare-race-and-adaptation-in-the-21st-century-tickets-119135564681@gwuenglish @eventbrite @gwuniversity @gwucolumbian #gwu #reading #english #shakespeare Share on FacebookTweet

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Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural studies, critical theory, and literary analysis. This event was organized by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare, who (among other professors in the department) has taught our course on Critical Methods. We hope this will be…

For the first time since the creation of the English Department’s mini-residency, the Wang Distinguished Professor will give a seminar just for undergraduates! Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor This year’s Wang Distinguished Professor, Simon Gikandi will be leading this special event on October 30 at 2:15 PM in Rome Hall 771. A specialist in the…

Join students in Contemporary LGBT Writing on March 10 at 7 PM for a roundtable discussion with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, producers of the documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012).  United in Anger tells the story of the early days of AIDS activism, from the perspective of those most…

Helen Deutsch, Department of English, UCLA The Wang Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies will be presented this year by Helen Deutsch, Professor of English at UCLA.  Professor Deutsch will be in residency at GW September 18-19, and will deliver a lecture titled “Savage Indignation: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said and the Demands of Late Style.”…