Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
Book link: https://www.routledge.
[UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information will be forthcoming!] Composing Disability returns to George Washington University this semester with a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. The six volumes focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series picks up again this Thursday, on November 9th, with a reading from New York Times Bestselling Author, Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Her latest book, Balm, has received widespread acclaim. The Washington Post wrote, “In gorgeous, compassionate prose, Perkins-Valdez continues our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities,” and…
Former GW English Creative Writing Professor Jody Bolz has a new book of poetry out and will be reading at Politics & Prose on Sunday, January 12th, at 1:00. Shadow Play will be published by Turning Point Books in mid-December: Shadow Play, a novella in verse by Jody Bolz Hypnotic and provocative by turns, Shadow Play retraces a journey across Asia in…
K. Tyler Christensen The final event in Contemporary LGBT Literature, following Jordy Rosenberg’s visit on April 22 (details here), is GW English’s own K. Tyler Christensen! Join students in the class on April 28 at 7 PM for an evening with Tyler. This is the final in a series of four “live” public events…
Professor Alexander Kondakov A late addition to our calendar! Next Thursday, Professor Alexander Kondakov of the European University at St. Petersburg will be a special guest in David Mitchell’s Literature of the Americas class. This event is open to the public. Thursday, November 17, 12:45-2 PM in Phillips Hall B156. Disability and Queer-Sexuality in…
Dear English majors, Please join us for a special event — a forum for English majors called FUTURES OF THE FIELD: THE ENGLISH MAJOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY English professors Herman Carillo, Jeffrey Cohen, Kavita Daiya, Robert McRuer, Jonathan Gil Harris, Gayle Wald, and Tara Wallace will speak about new directions, developments and possibilities in…