CCAS Celebration

Anya Ulinich, author of Petropolis will be reading from her work on campus, Thursday, March 5th in the Marvin Center Third Floor Amphitheater, 8:00-9:30PM. The National Book Foundation, 5 under 35, calls her work “…particularly exciting and among the best of a new generation of writers.” Gary Shteyngart says of Ulinich’s protagonist, “Sasha Goldberg is…

Former featured alumnus Jon Williams sends this picture from his celebration of Mardi Gras. We publish it without comment. We love hearing from you! Drop us a line — or an image — at chair@gwu.edu Share on FacebookTweet

Our beloved colleague Maxine Clair is retiring. I’d like to share with you some comments from the student evaluations from her very last class. Professor Clair will be missed dearly. Each class with her is like a small step forward in my life as a student, and also a contribution to whatever I might achieve…

Prof. Priyamvada Gopal Please join the English Department as we welcome Prof. Priyamvada Gopal, of the University of Cambridge, on Thursday, Feb. 10 from 4-6 pm in Rome 771. The title of Prof. Gopal’s talk is “Is Feminism Bad for Multiculturalism? Gender, Cultural Identity and Literary Controversy” Prof. Gopal is the author of two books,…

  Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman, who kicks off this year’s Jewish Literature Live readings, is one of those remarkable polymaths: an award-winning fiction writer whose “day job” is as a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.    His first novel, From the Far Euphrates, was an LA Times Book Review…

The English Department congratulates Professor Robert McRuer, whose book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability has been awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award. This award is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Language Association. The judge’s report on Crip Theory declares: The members of the Committee were…