The 2016 EGSA Student Symposium: Border Crossings
Our next Jenny McKean Moore reading is Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm. It will be a special evening, featuring the daughter of Jenny McKean Moore, Honor Moore, reading, from her memoir, about her mother. Virginia Hartman will be introducing and moderating the evening. Join Our Event: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/97827956788?pwd=Vis1a3lwREl0a0dEWFNYb28wTExMdz09 Meeting ID: 978 2795 6788 Passcode:…
September was a whirlwind of a month, complete with starting new classes and welcoming new members to the GW English community. The English department hosted and participated in a number of exciting events in September, including Brando Skyhorse’s first reading, Amy Bloom’s reading and the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual lecture. It was great seeing…
Tony Kushner will be arriving in 20 DAYS! http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Tony+Kushner/tony-kushner-2013-writers-guild-awards-press-room-01.html Tony Kushner is coming to visit GW through the Jewish Literature Live Program thanks to a generous grant from David Bruce Smith. In conjunction with Kushner’s visit we have and will be running the ACTING UP film series and a series of Play Workshops focusing on…
WORKSHOP on Publishing Your Research by Ben Doyle, Global Head of Literature, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing your first article or book can seem like a daunting prospect and, for the uninitiated, the process can see somewhat arcane and unclear. Ben Doyle, Publisher and Global Head of Literature for Palgrave Macmillan’s Scholarly division, will be speaking about the publishing experience at…
The pandemic has ushered in verbal and physical violence against Asian Americans. On April 15, GW hosted a virtual town hall webinar to address the crisis. Alexa Alice Joubin, one of the speakers, showed how the language of disease has historically been connected to racism. Read the coverage in GW Today. From GW Today, April 20:…
TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012). In…