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Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page: Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner
Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page Thursday, January 21st, 2016 at 7 p.m. Free tickets here Kseniya Melnik, the 2015-2016 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at GWU, is the author of the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed…
Monday March 23: A Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist Introduces a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
MICHAEL CHABON MONDAY MARCH 23 7 PM JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM Michael Chabon’s first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was a New York Times bestseller. His second Wonder Boys (1995), was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. His young adult novel, Summerland, won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s…
Save the Dates: Queer, Jewish, Disability, and Shakespeare Studies
October and early November are chock-a-block with English department or English-affiliated programming. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events. October 4: E. Patrick Johnson The Northwestern University Professor and performer E. Patrick Johnson visits GW during the run of his critically acclaimed one-man show “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” at Arlington’s…
Disability Studies Across the Curriculum
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,…
David Bezmozgis Reading: Tuesday, March 19th
Don’t miss a reading with award-winning writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis Marvin Center Amphitheater 7:30pm Tuesday March 19th http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a68a2684-f1fe-11e1-bba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Np6oFdJg Bezmozgis is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Free World and Natasha and Other Stories, and is visiting GW as a guest of the Jewish Literature Live program. Natasha and Other Stories won the Toronto…
