From the English-Speaking Union, a nearby event that might interest you: BBC Radio 4’s ANY QUESTIONS? FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, at 12:30 p.m. JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM, George Washington University 805 21st Street NW in Washington Admission Free, but Reservations are Recommended On December 7, 2001, the British Broadcasting Corproation came to the Jack Morton Auditorium at…
GW’s Fourth Annual World Literature Residency is now underway, with Nokuthula Mazibuko of South Africa in residence at George Washington University for a month, thanks to collaboration between Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the South African Embassy. Writer and director of documentary films, including The Spirit of No Surrender, Lady Was a Mshoza…
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar was launched last month with a terrific paper by Professor Gil Harris, “The Writing on the Wall: Old Jewry and John Stow’s Urban Palimpsest.” During its initial semester the seminar will focus upon faculty work in progress, with papers circulating two weeks in advance of each meeting. The…
Dear English majors, Please join us for a special event — a forum for English majors called FUTURES OF THE FIELD: THE ENGLISH MAJOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY English professors Herman Carillo, Jeffrey Cohen, Kavita Daiya, Robert McRuer, Jonathan Gil Harris, Gayle Wald, and Tara Wallace will speak about new directions, developments and possibilities in…
Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…
Although all of the Inauguration Festivities are likely in their own way to be worth attending, allow me to call your attention to two that you will not want to miss, both of them on Wednesday November 14. 1. “Cultural Mobility: The Travels of Shakespeare’s Cardenio” by Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English, Harvard University. In…
