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…
Professors Daniel Saalfeld and Daniel DeWispelare Uproarious Laughter Decked the Halls Smiles All Around, Ready to Ring in a New Year Katie and Eve, this semester’s fabulous Work-Study Students Professor DeWispelare with Department Operations Manager Constance Kibler Professors Patricia Chu, Evelyn Schreiber, and Ormond Seavey Graduate Students Theodora Danylevich and Elizabeth Pittman Professor Holly Dugan…
To say Jose Dalisay has had a productive career is an understatement. The Philippines-born writer has published over 20 works in fiction and nonfiction since 1983 and also has an extensive background as a dramatist, columnist and film writer. Born in the Philippine island province Romblon in 1954, Dalisay spent his formative years in Manila,…
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…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
Recently I was invited to give the Holloway Lecture at McDaniel College. Held once a year on a literary topic of wide interest, this lecture is a big event on campus. Students in a communications class have a competition to design the poster. English majors read work published by the speaker, and acquaint themselves with…
