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Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman
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Tammy Greenwood-Stewart
We are privileged again this year to have the novelist Tammy Greenwood-Stewart teaching creative writing to our undergraduates. The author of gorgeous works like Breathing Water and Undressing the Moon, Tammy has just been awarded a contract by Kensington Press for her next two novels. Readers can discover more about her work at this website….
Edward P. Jones Reading Response
After Chair of the English Department Jeffrey J. Cohen introduced GWU President Steven Knapp who introduced author Edward P. Jones, Jones read two selections from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World: From Chapter 5, the story of Sherif John Skiffington attempting to quell the fears of his sister-in-law Clara Martin. This roughly corresponds…
January Edition of the Lowercase Reading Series: Tara Campbell, Koye Oyedeji, and Collin Dwyer
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Gail Paster to Deliver Inaugural Dean’s Lecture on Shakespeare
The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year. On Friday, September 7, at 3:30 PM, former GW English professor and Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Gail Kern Paster, will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Program, directed by Alexa Alice…


