Prof. Evelyn Schreiber Awarded Toni Morrison Society Book Prize
Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…
Daria-Ann Martineau is the winner of a $500 prize for her poem “Orchids.” The English Department congratulates senior Daria-Ann Martineau, a speech and hearing major and creative writing minor, for her poem “Orchids,” which won this year’s Student Poetry Prize, awarded to the best poem submitted by a student at George Washington University. Martineau’s poem,…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg may be a “freak of nature” as she describes herself. From meeting her earlier on Thursday, I certainly found her charming, witty, and quirky in the best possible way, so her self-labeling at her reading at the DCJCC was odd to me. Then again, Goldberg could be seen as a…
Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading TONIGHT at 5 PMThe Jack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, First FloorFree and open to all, though seating is limited The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World, Mr. Jones is the Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English at GW for Spring 2009 Share on FacebookTweet
On Monday, March 3, Prof. Gayle Wald participated in Woolly Mammoth Theater’s panel discussion for its new play, “Stunning.” Prof. Wald was invited to contribute her scholarly insight into the play’s themes.Here is what Prof. Wald had to say about the event: The evening consisted of a reading of a scene from the play by…
Media Credit: Marie McGrory/Hatchet photographer University President Steven Knapp shakes the hand of visiting professor and Pulizer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones, right, who read from his new book “The Known World” at the Jack Morton Auditorium on Thursday night. by Becky ReevesHatchet Reporter Edward P. Jones, a renowned fiction author and visiting professor at…