Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
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December 10 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m): One thousand copies of The Known World will be given away for FREE in the Marvin Center January 29 (5 PM) Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading, introduced by GW President Steven Knapp (Jack Morton Auditorium, School of Media and Public Affairs) February 18 (6:30 PM) “Knowing The Known…
Still from Floating Skyscrapers (2013), Tomasz Wasilewski, dir. Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 9, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English 3980W) and “Intro to LGBT Studies”…
We are privileged again this year to have the novelist Tammy Greenwood-Stewart teaching creative writing to our undergraduates. The author of gorgeous works like Breathing Water and Undressing the Moon, Tammy has just been awarded a contract by Kensington Press for her next two novels. Readers can discover more about her work at this website….
Eli Clare, portrait by Riva Lehrer The University Writing Program, English Department, and Disability Support Services welcome Eli Clare to GWU on Wednesday October 3rd, when Clare will speak on “Notes on Cure, Disability, and Natural Worlds” at 7 pm in Gelman 702 (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Room). Through storytelling and critical analysis, Eli Clare explores the…
Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
Thursday, 23 February, 2017, 4-5:00 pm Phillips 411 An excellent opportunity for graduate students, this seminar will help you plan and execute job search strategies, present opportunities for job seekers with a graduate degree, and help emphasize and showcase desirable traits and skills for employers. JENNIFER LINHART WOOD (PhD in English, George Washington University)…