Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
The GWU English Department, British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster and the University Honors Program invite you to a lecture: Translated From the English: British Reality on the Global Screen Professor Jim English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania Director of the Penn Humanities Forum Wednesday March 5, 2014 – 2:30…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is being held by South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko. The World Literature Residency brings writers from across the globe to GW to lecture, read from their works, and visit undergraduate classes. Writers typically remain…
The 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day will take place in Gelman Library on October 6. Register here to attend the free event. The English Department’s Alexa Alice Joubin will be one of the speakers. She will address open-access tools to foster inclusiveness. There e are multiple ways to facilitate inclusion…
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