A DC booklist–featuring several members of GWU English

What do the two people in our blog post title have in common, besides serenity and good looks? Funny you should ask. Both the Dalai Lama and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson were just named in the Utne Reader list of “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is, of course, our inaugural GW English Distinguished…

Check out “Set in Stone: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Memory” in this week’s New Yorker (October 13 2008). A review of Looking for Lincoln, the essay is also a meditation upon “the first [president] with a psychology, a delicate mental makeup that suggested itself to anyone who saw his picture in a newspaper,…

From the electronic mailbag: Dear Dr. McAleavey— I was one of the lucky students that got to participate in the JMM poetry workshop with Dr. Van Cleave (Ryan). I am writing you today to give you my feedback on the course and Ryan as a workshop leader. First, these workshops are incredibly important to the…

This just in from Prof. Holly Dugan, describing her fascinating summer 2010 English course: This summer, I’ll be teaching a course on early English drama that culminates with a week abroad, exploring Edinburgh, Scotland and Yorkshire, England and watching the 2010 production of the York mystery plays. I’m writing here in the hopes that I…

Our new lounge Our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, Tim Johnston Our office coffee maker and candy bowl Our connections to GW MEMSI and Africana Studies Jewish Literature Live with Prof. Faye Moskowitz Our office staff: Constance Kibler, Linda Terry, and work-study students Elisa Valero and Tori Kerr The EGSA! Our majors in English, Creative Writing,…

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2010 GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies on Friday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in 1957 E Street, room B12. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Here is…