TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012). In…
Join us for a roundtable and Q&A with three GW alums on how to use your Liberal Arts education in the professional World. It takes place on Friday, April 6th, at 2pm in Gelman 702. Paula Mejia (English and Creative Writing B.A., 2013; English M.A., 2014): A writer and also an Associate Editor at Atlas…
Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to accompany Lloyd Schwartz’s interview about editing the Elizabeth Bishop Library of America volume coming out on Valentine’s Day. Share on FacebookTweet
Instruction and Reference Librarian Tolonda Henderson has sent us the following entry about her upcoming workshop on Harry Potter, this Tuesday at 4 PM in Gelman: One of the most basic ways we organize books is by fiction and non-fiction. My detective novels and sci-fi fantasy books live across my apartment from my textbooks from…
Join us on Monday for a screening of The Line Has Shattered, a documentary on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference with the Director, Robert McTavish. Where: Gelman Library, Room 214 2130 H Street, Washington, DC 20052 When: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. RSVP Required. Email cathye@gwu.edu “The Line Has Shattered is an invaluable teaching tool as well as a…
Join the GWU English department on November 17th at 7:30 PM in Gelman 702, for Jung Yun’s fiction reading. The newest and most welcome addition to our creative writing faculty, Jung Yun is the author of SHELTER, published by Picador in 2016 and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, as well as…
