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The English Graduate Student Association welcomes graduates and undergraduates to attend the 2013 EGSA Symposium “Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities” The Symposium will be held on February 15th in Rome 771 and will start at 9 am and end at 5:30 pm! Here’s a sneak peek at some of the panels!…
English Honors Symposium
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Luther Rice Undergrad Fellowship
English Department majors and minors: Has your course work or reading sparked a desire to pursue some research of your own? The Luther Rice Undergrad Fellowship program at GWU provides financial assistance and structured support. With a deadline in early December, now is the time to begin thinking through your ideas and preparing an…
Aaron Hamburger Leads DC Reads Discussion November 5
This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM. The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…
Meet My New “Mentor”: David Sedaris
I had been in line for over ninety minutes. In this time I could have gone to a movie, but I needed to meet the man who made me laugh harder in just two hours than I have in an entire month. There’s no doubt about it, if you thought David Sedaris was hilarious in…
Forecast for the Fall Semester: TemFest Celebrates The Tempest, Dec. 3
The syllabi are in, and there’s definitely something stormy and Shakespearean coming our way! That’s right, it is not in error that William Shakespeare’s The Tempest appears on the syllabus of so many classes this semester. On the contrary, it’s a conscious, calculated effort on the part of Profs. Jeffrey Cohen and Jennifer James to…