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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,…
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…
Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Susan Nussbaum at GW October 6
PEN/Bellweather Prize Winner Susan Nussbaum Our first event in the Private Bodies/Public Encounters series will occur on Monday, October 6 from 7-9 PM in 309 Marvin Center. The event features novelist and playwright, Susan Nussbaum, from Chicago. Susan’s novel, “Good Kings Bad Kings”, details the lives and struggles of a multi-racial group of disabled youth institutionalized at the…
Second Meeting of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar was launched last month with a terrific paper by Professor Gil Harris, “The Writing on the Wall: Old Jewry and John Stow’s Urban Palimpsest.” During its initial semester the seminar will focus upon faculty work in progress, with papers circulating two weeks in advance of each meeting. The…
Gelman Library Harry Potter Workshop
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…
Nadeem Aslam to be writer in residence (autumn 2007)
Renowned British author Nadeem Aslam will be the GW English Department’s inaugural British Council Writer in Residence during the fall 2007 semester. Beginning in mid-October, he will spend a month in Washington through a new program sponsored by the department and the council. Mr. Aslam achieved international recognition with the publication of his brilliant novel…
