English Dept. Secretary Linda Terry, Assistant Prof. Holly Dugan, and Office Manager Constance Kibler. It’s official! Prof. Holly Dugan’s The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England is out from The Johns Hopkins University Press! University of Michigan Prof. Michael Schoenfeldt calls it “[a] wonderful piece of work that will engage…
Recently Prof. Robert McRuer was interviewed by “Pushing Limits,” a radio show by and for people with disabilities produced by KPFA in Berkeley, California. The show airs twice monthly in the Bay Area and is available as an online broadcast. The segment in question, which is available for listening here, focused on influential American…
Vice Provost and Dean of Student Affairs Peter Konwerski Reads a Poem As Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Konwerski is the chief student affairs officer for GW, managing a diverse staff of education professionals responsible for academic success; student academic engagement; parent engagement; and wellness, education, and prevention for GW undergraduate, graduate, and professional students….
This is one of those weekends when it’s good to be a book lover in Washington, DC. The 10th annual National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress, is Saturday, Sept. 25 on the National Mall, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Billed as “a celebration of the joy of reading for all ages,”…
Prof. Harris’s book collects his Sedgewick Memorial Lecture from 2011. Prof. Gil Harris has been on sabbatical this year, writing and doing research in India. But that doesn’t mean he has taken a hiatus in publishing. His newly released “Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise” is based on the Sedgewick…
A student enjoying the new space. Upon their return from winter break, English department students and faculty were greeted with a new lounge designed by Interior Design MA students Elise Katzif Walker and Laura Van Biber. Having never been to the previous lounge, and without any knowledge that there ever was one, I wasn’t sure…
