Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers making presentations at GW through the “Jewish Literature Live” program. The series was generously funded by David Bruce Smith.
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The last Medieval and Early Modern Seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, November 30th from 9-11 AM in Rome 771. Jehangir Malegam (GW History) will be presenting his paper entitled: No Peace for the Wicked: Conflicting Visions of Peacemaking in an Eleventh-Century Monastic Narrative As usual, please RSVP to me to receive…
Many of this blog’s readers will have heard about the Browne Report recently released in the UK. The report by Lord Browne reviews Britain’s higher education system and proposes sweeping changes in the ways that students’ educations are financed. If adopted–and there is wide agreement that it will be–the Browne Report will make higher education…
With the new semester comes a new readership for the GW English blog. You’ll find much useful information on this website, including: department news alumni updates faculty publications news for current students, especially English majors department–sponsored events our annual reports and other documents that we feel are best shared opportunities for you to help advance…
We’ve already told you how to take a screenwriting course with famous producer and screenwriter Jason Filardi. Would you also like to take a course in writing fiction with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones? Jones will be in residence at GW during the spring semester of 2009. If you would like to be considered…
Graduate students in GW’s English Department have launched a brand new theory reading group. With the start of classes, they are pleased to announce the first meeting of M.A.T.C.H. (Mobilizing an Active Theory Community in the Humanities), which will be from 5pm to 6pm on Thursday, September 13th. The meeting will commence in the Rome…
