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

The English Department is a proud co-sponsor of the conference Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, to be held at GW on Feb. 22 & 23. The keynote speaker is Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. The symposium begins with a film festival (free and open to the public). Among the GW faculty presenting will be Robert McRuer,…

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The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman. Elliot Ackerman is a National Book Award Finalist. His novels include Red Dress in Black & White and Waiting for Eden. His memoir is Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine…

Lisa Duggan New York University Welcome to the Fall 2018 semester!  The English Department is happy to announce that our first big event of the semester will take place on Friday, September 7, at 3 PM, in Marvin Center 302.  Please join us for a presentation by Professor Lisa Duggan of New York University.  This…

Professor Simon Gikandi Simon Gikandi’s 2011 Slavery and the Culture of Taste From October 26-31, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Simon Gikandi as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence.  Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). He is…

Toni Morrison in a 2008 photograph. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison will be visiting GW on Wednesday, September 21, where she will be honored by the University and the Toni Morrison Society with the dedication of a memorial bench in front of Lisner Auditorium. The event will be part of the society’s Bench by the…