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Transatlantic Dialogue: Robert McRuer’s Class Goes to Prague
From today’s Hatchet, a piece on Prof. Robert McRuer’s innovative new class by Gabriella Schwarz: Most field trips for GW classes require a Metro farecard, but passports were necessary for 13 students in an English course this fall. The class, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” taught by professor Robert McRuer, went to the Czech…
Alumnus Kathleen Rooney Releases Another Publication!
Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and…
We Really Did Give Away 1000 Books at the Marvin Center yesterday …
… but if you missed out and are not so benighted that you have no interest in reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones come to the English Department main office (Academic Center, Rome Hall 760) right away. We have a few copies that we are willing to part with. They even come with…
English Honors: Some upcoming meetings
See this stack of books? English Honors students read them all … two at a time. Well, not really. But it’s a nice thought. I had a professor in college who had a photographic memory (really). In one class, he began reading Moby Dick and then closed the book and continued to “read.” For about…
Tom Mallon Receives Vursell Prize
Tom Mallon’s books on display at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Last week Prof. Thomas Mallon was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with its Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, a $10,000 prize “given annually to single out recent prose that merits recognition for the quality of its style.” Prof….
Nadia Kalman Reads Thursday Night in “Jewish Literature Live” Series
Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m. Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…