Succeeding Outside of the Academy (Career Paths for PhDs in Humanities)

Join us for an interactive workshop on thinking beyond blackness and whiteness in the history of race at the GW Diversity Summit 2019 Please RSVP Beyond Black and White: Race in the World  Alexa Alice Joubin 3:40-4:30 pm, Thursday, November 7, 2019 Marvin Center, Room 308 800 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 George Washington…

Drugs. Sex. Money. Excess. Narcissism. Moral depravity. I could be referring to the nightly news, but really I am referring to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. That novel about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, that slowly sucks you in, thrilling and horrifying you at the same time….

GW Arts Initiative Program: Poetry Reading: The Best Dressed Girl in School “I could make you the best dressed girl in school,” my mother said, “but I won’t.” GW Professor of English Jane Shore grew up in the apartment over Corduroy Village, her parents’ dress store in North Bergen, New Jersey. She will read poems…

The English department presents a Jenny 2 Reading Event, featuring two writers, Frederick Pollack and James Mattson. The event, on March 29th, begins at 5:00 pm in Bell Hall, Room 108. Frederick Pollack, an adjunct professor of creative writing here at GW, published in 2015, a collection of his poetry. A Poverty of Words features 92 poems…

From the English-Speaking Union, a nearby event that might interest you: BBC Radio 4’s ANY QUESTIONS? FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, at 12:30 p.m. JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM, George Washington University 805 21st Street NW in Washington Admission Free, but Reservations are Recommended On December 7, 2001, the British Broadcasting Corproation came to the Jack Morton Auditorium at…

WORKSHOP on Publishing Your Research by Ben Doyle, Global Head of Literature, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing your first article or book can seem like a daunting prospect and, for the uninitiated, the process can see somewhat arcane and unclear.  Ben Doyle, Publisher and Global Head of Literature for Palgrave Macmillan’s Scholarly division, will be speaking about the publishing experience at…