The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase
Associate Professor of History Diane Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative, will give opening remarks
Associate Professor of History Diane Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative, will give opening remarks
Instruction and Reference Librarian Tolonda Henderson has sent us the following entry about her upcoming workshop on Harry Potter, this Tuesday at 4 PM in Gelman: One of the most basic ways we organize books is by fiction and non-fiction. My detective novels and sci-fi fantasy books live across my apartment from my textbooks from…
The English Department is a proud co-sponsor of the conference Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, to be held at GW on Feb. 22 & 23. The keynote speaker is Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. The symposium begins with a film festival (free and open to the public). Among the GW faculty presenting will be Robert McRuer,…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin is giving a WoW Talk today on Trans Studies and Why It Matters. Here is the Zoom link. All are welcome! The WoW Talks at George Washington University are 10-minute TED style presentations that offer snapshots of faculty’s latest research. In her talk, Professor Joubin…
Writer Jabari Asim will read from his book We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, March 7th, in Gelman 702 at 7:00 pm. Asim is the author of six books for adults and nine books for children. He was an editor and columnist for the Washington Post and editor in chief of The…
Please join the English Department faculty for informal and wide ranging conversation. The faculty of the English Department care about you — not just as intellectuals and artists (you wow us every day in those roles), but as young people navigating a difficult present. Please know that our office doors are always open to you….
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…