A Reading by Edward Hirsch: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Lisa Page Our own Lisa Page will be sitting down and interviewing Molly McCloskey, George Washington’s Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Residence, this Wednesday (January 27th) at 7pm at the Hill Center. The event is free and certainly not to be missed! Molly McClosky McCloskey is well known on GW’s campus for her popular creative non-fiction class,…

The English Department is excited to host a reading and Q&A with disability novelist Susan Nussbaum. Susan is the author of the acclaimed book, “Good Kings Bad Kings”.  The zoom session will be held in accordance with the advanced undergraduate class on Disability Studies currently being taught by professor David Mitchell today from 5-7pm. This…

  “Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world.  This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.” The 2017 Digital Humanities Institute symposium,  “Global…

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…

Eli Clare, portrait by Riva Lehrer The University Writing Program, English Department, and Disability Support Services welcome Eli Clare to GWU on Wednesday October 3rd, when Clare will speak on “Notes on Cure, Disability, and Natural Worlds” at 7 pm in Gelman 702 (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Room). Through storytelling and critical analysis, Eli Clare explores the…