Alumna Blog: Taylor Kate Brown

As Jeffrey previously observed, GWU will be experiencing another inauguration tomorrow: that of the university’s first Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Literature. I can only hope that Mr. Jones, with his hand firm upon The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, does not flub the swearing in. With another new beginning at hand, it is…

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Now that you’ve been filled in on the life of Jenny McKean Moore, it’s time to meet this year’s Writer-in-Residence! Come out this evening to hear Tilar Mazzeo as she reads from her forthcoming book The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume. The event begins at 8…

From Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 104 class comes this poem from sophomore Amelia Trask. Milky Waythe night is strungwith storm clouds,dark stained black in blots,edges dissolving into the wet. within four walls,the closeness ofpen-tipped stipples,contraction of muscle, theflushing of Mars reddened,braided skin, your fingers kissedwith familiar swirls: the Milky Way printed,pressed against me. outside the…

We hope you have enjoyed the Get to Know Your TA feature. This will be our third and final post in the series. It was a lot of fun getting to know these three TAs and we hope now that you have read the posts, you will feel free to stop by their offices for…

Inside HigherEd, a popular and respected website that focuses upon issues in postsecondary education, features an excerpt from a recent book by two GW English Department faculty. Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan’s Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book argues for the return of aesthetics to the…