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More April Events: Jane Shore – Sholem Aleichem Fest – Alex Alice Joubin @ the Folger
The last weeks of April are busy ones on campus. Here are three upcoming events of interest. Come out to hear our own Jane Shore on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips B156. Prof. Shore will be reading from That Said, New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in an event sponsored by the…
GW Faculty Member Thomas Mallon at Politics & Prose
Politics & Prose Bookstore presents Thomas Mallon author of Fellow Travelers: A Novel Sunday, July 1, 1 p.m. 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW • Washington, DC www.politics-prose.com • (202) 364-1919 FELLOW TRAVELERS (Pantheon, $25) In this new novel, Mallon takes us back to the days of Joe McCarthy, when the Wisconsin senator was on a rampage…
Professor Daiya at The Writer’s Center (Bethesda) Event “The Cities We Live In: New Writings from South Asia”
Join us for New Writing from South Asia! The Fall for the Book Festival and the The Writer’s Center in Bethesda hosts its first South Asian literary afternoon on Saturday October 3rd 2015. The event will kick off at 2 pm with a panel discussion on gender, visual culture, and public space, with our very own Professor Kavita Daiya (who this…
Amy Bloom Reads Thursday, September 18
Writer Amy Bloom is know for the complexity of her work. Her characters are complicated and full of surprises. Bloom got an early start in her craft. As a child growing up in New York, she remembers composing poems that she described in an interview with the fiction and poetry website Phoughshares as“Derivative, I fear—influenced…
Lauren Camp to Read on Thursday, March 22nd (Tomorrow!) at the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series
Join us tomorrow, Thursday March 22nd, in Gelman 102 for the next installment of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring: Lauren Camp A poet, performer, writer, and educator, Lauren Camp will read from the latest of her three books of poetry, One Hundred Hungers, a collection that “explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and…
Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability
[UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information will be forthcoming!] Composing Disability returns to George Washington University this semester with a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. The six volumes focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth…
