MARK YOUR CALENDAR: OCTOBER 23

Friday October 23 5 PM Marvin Center Continental Ballroom800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies “The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility and Disability” Introduction by José Muñoz, Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature University welcome by President Steven Knapp…

Renowned British novelist Howard Jacobson will be our third GW-British Council Writer in Residence during February 2010. Like Suhayl Saadi and Nadeem Aslam before him, Mr. Jacobson will read four works of his choosing with students and discuss them informally over four Tuesday nights. Upon completion of the course students will turn in 5 pages…

If you were sentient last week, you might have noticed the major media storm generated by the release of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua’s book Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It has been excerpted, dissected, talked about, blogged about, and contested, and has pushed Asian American families (or at least one construct of them) into…

Check out the new blog by Sarah Werner, Wynken de Worde. The undergraduate program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dr. Werner teaches our Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar. Her blog is well worth bookmarking or adding to your RSS feed. Share on FacebookTweet

Christina Beasley. Photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis. The first-place winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets’ University and College Poetry Prize is Christina Beasley ’12, an International Affairs major and Creative Writing minor. Christina will receive a $100 prize and a one-year membership to the Academy. Honorable mention goes to senior Annie-Rose Strasser, an…

We are very pleased to have Rajiv Menon join us this fall as the second Communications Liaison, an undergraduate internship position charged with disseminating news about the department and fostering a better sense of community among our majors. I asked Rajiv to compose a short paragraph of introduction, and this is what he offered: I’m…