We will be brief this time

The summer has flown by, like it always does. As I arrived at the office this morning, I saw students wearing bright yellow “Volunteer Movers” t-shirts, and I noticed a bit more traffic in the Academic Center elevators. (One benefit of summer: press “7” and you get an uninterrupted ride to the English Department.) Personally,…

Two faculty members and a student helped us to raise more than two thousand dollars in the last cycle. The money will help with a readings series and with undergraduate and graduate students research projects. We deeply appreciate the generosity of: Natalie Carter (student) David McAleavey (faculty) Tara Wallace (faculty) If you have not contributed…

The English Department office has been ornamented, garnished, embellished, trimmed and bedecked for the season. Stop by, grab some chocolate, and see if this year’s theme (“Decorating to Annoy”) has been a success. Share on FacebookTweet

Those of you who have been by the English department on the 7th floor might have noticed the department’s empty bulletin board. To put it to use, I’d like to suggest creating a “featured undergraduate” section for the department, where picture and biographies of some of the English department’s undergraduates can be displayed each semester….

Many of the readers of this blog know about Poetry Out Loud, the phenomenally successful national poetry recitation and performance competition. Co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud builds on the contemporary resurgence of poetry as a spoken-word art. It’s not exactly a poetry slam, since the…

From today’s Hatchet, a piece on Prof. Robert McRuer’s innovative new class by Gabriella Schwarz: Most field trips for GW classes require a Metro farecard, but passports were necessary for 13 students in an English course this fall. The class, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” taught by professor Robert McRuer, went to the Czech…