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Cathy Eisenhower, the Gelman Library subject specialist for English, has created two excelelnt research guides that will be of great use to many who read this blog: British Literature American Literature Thank you, Cathy! Share on FacebookTweet

We are very pleased to have Rajiv Menon join us this fall as the second Communications Liaison, an undergraduate internship position charged with disseminating news about the department and fostering a better sense of community among our majors. I asked Rajiv to compose a short paragraph of introduction, and this is what he offered: I’m…

As students sunbathe in the last weeks of summer, professors feel the start of the new semester as an entirely different weather pattern. “The new semester has crashed with all the force of a tsunami. But sometimes it’s good to get wet,” said Professor Jonathan Gil Harris. This academic year is a complete change from…

Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m.   Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City.    Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…

Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading TONIGHT at 5 PMThe Jack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, First FloorFree and open to all, though seating is limited The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World, Mr. Jones is the Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English at GW for Spring 2009 Share on FacebookTweet

We asked GW graduate Rati Bishnoi to let us know what she has been doing since finishing her degree. She writes: Presently I work as a defense reporter here in DC. After graduating in 2003, I set out to pursue a job in journalism and publishing. Before landing at the independent publication “Inside the Pentagon”…