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.”…
The Department of English is very happy to announce one of our first events for the Fall 2013 Semester. On September 12, 2013, from 4-6 PM, please join us in Marvin Center 301 for “No Longer Secret: Willa Cather’s Letters. A Conversation with Andrew Jewell and Marilee Lindemann.” This event will be moderated by our…
GW ENGLISH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS SYMPOSIUM Friday, May 2, 2008 Rome 771 1:00-4:30 pm 1:00 OPENING REMARKS Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Undergraduate Studies 1:10-2:10 SESSION I. PERFORMING SEXUALITY & GENDER Presiding: Professor Holly Dugan Lisa Francavilla, “Virgin, Mother, and Whore: Appropriating Female Bodily Agency in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I…
Join the GWU English department on November 17th at 7:30 PM in Gelman 702, for Jung Yun’s fiction reading. The newest and most welcome addition to our creative writing faculty, Jung Yun is the author of SHELTER, published by Picador in 2016 and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, as well as…
Come hear the inimitable Jane Shore discuss her latest book of poetry A Yes-or-No Answer (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) Faculty Authors Book Signing Reception October 30, 2008 10:00 am – 12:00 noon The Gelman Library Room 207 Click on the image to enlarge. All are welcome. Share on FacebookTweet
The South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival is this Saturday (November 15th), from 10 AM to 5 PM. This is one of my favorite events in Washington and I know it will be of interest to many English majors. In addition, Professor Supriya Goswami from GW’s English Department will be moderating one of the…
