The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information.
President Knapp graciously hosted the faculty of the English Department at his F St home yesterday. Although he holds a part-time job as president of a major urban university, Steven Knapp is most famous as a scholar of 18th- and 19th-century English literature and literary theory. He holds his tenure in the English Department at…
From a student-run blog that I enjoy reading: The University announced today that GW will be receiving a 10 million dollar donation by the Smith family and the Kogod family to renovate the Smith Center. This is the largest donation ever made to the University. And it’s for basketball. While I have nothing against basketball,…
English 40W, “Literature of the Americas,” is a new course that reflects recent intellectual developments within the field of American literary studies. “Literature of the Americas” is just one term for a new approach to American literature. Others include “Black Atlantic literature,” “trans-hemispheric American literature,” and “circum-Atlantic literature,” and draw on the work of theorists…
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The Judaic Studies Program at GW is pleased to announce that it will give awards of up to $2,000 each to 3 undergraduate students for travel to Israel in the 2008-09 academic year due to a generous grant from the Gudelsky Foundation. The awards will be given to students who demonstrate that travel to Israel…
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/images/childlit.gif ALCO is the “American Literature and Culture Organization,” a group in which graduate students and faculty participate in discussions about language and culture from an Americanist perspective attentive to national, transnational, and hemispheric questions. The goal of ALCO is to open discussions across the various areas of study in GW’s English Department, as well…
