🌩️  Submit your T-shirt logo designs for a chance to win $100! Next semester, the GW English Department is hosting Thunder & Lightning, an event for Creative Writing AND English students/alumni to share their writing amongst fellow writers. All forms are accepted, whether they be short fiction, poetry, essays — if you wrote it, we want to hear…

    Join us for “Passing in America,” the next installment of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series, on Friday, October 13th at 7:30 PM in Gelman Library, room 702. Moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence Page, this panel discussion will feature Gayle Wald, Brando Skyhorse, and Lisa Page, and aims to generate a discussion…

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…

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…

English graduate students at GW are a busy and productive group. In addition to the usual–taking classes, studying for and taking graduate exams, writing master’s and PhD theses, teaching and TAing–they do a tremendous amount of work organizing social and academic activities. These include research discussion groups, dissertation reading groups, and the occasional EGSA night…

This Thursday: Room 602, 1957 E Street NW, Elliott School for International Affairs Examining Violence against Women in India: Changes, Challenges, Futures 11 AM-1 PM The panel’s conversation will explore the many complexities of the situation of violence against women in India, and also allow for a discussion of it in a comparative frame, linking…