Aaron Hamburger Leads DC Reads Discussion November 5

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…

Vikram Chandra, formerly a professor of English in our department, will be reading from his latest work on Thursday April 5 at 8PM (Marvin Center, Third Floor Amphitheatre). Chandra is the author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He is also the author of…

Student elections are this Wednesday and Thursday at GW, and a very large pool of SA, MCGB, and PB candidates have come forward to promote themselves. According to The Hatchet, there are 56 student candidates this year, compared to 31 last year. This increase is evident to anyone passing through Academic Center, University Yard, or…

If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…