The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series welcomes poet Lindsay Bernal. She is the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition. Share on FacebookTweet
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 7:30PM in Corcoran 111 for the next installment of The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Laura van den Berg, who will read from her new novel, Find Me. Find Me, “a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny…
Student elections are this Wednesday and Thursday at GW, and a very large pool of SA, MCGB, and PB candidates have come forward to promote themselves. According to The Hatchet, there are 56 student candidates this year, compared to 31 last year. This increase is evident to anyone passing through Academic Center, University Yard, or…
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…
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…
“Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.” The 2017 Digital Humanities Institute symposium, “Global…
