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Meet Paula Mejia, Class of 2013, our New Student Blogger
I’m happy to introduce our new Student Blogger, Paula Mejia, Class of 2013. A prospective double English/CW major, Paula will soon be blogging regularly. Here’s what she writes about herself: I hail from Houston, Texas. Since childhood, I’ve had the opportunity to spend many lazy summer afternoons reading, writing, and breathing in my surroundings. My…
GW MEMSI in the news
From the latest By George! New GW Institute Brings Together Scholars in Medieval, Early Modern Studies Jeffrey J. Cohen, chair of GW’s English Department, leads the University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. By Julia Parmley Faculty across departments in GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences have been individually engaged in medieval and early…
Did you know that it takes a mere $2.5 million to endow a chair?
An “endowed chair” is a professorship awarded as an ultimate honor to a scholar and teacher. We don’t have any in the English department, but hope to possess one some day. Endowing a chair is as easy as writing a check for two and a half million dollars. In case you have that kind of…
Karen Russell, One of New Yorker’s “20 Under 40,” Reads Tonight
Karen Russell, a young American writer who was recently featured in The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” list of young American literary talents, reads tonight from her latest work. The reading, the last of the year in the English Department’s Jenny McKean Moore series, is at 8 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. All are welcome….
Inaugural poets
Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know. Share on FacebookTweet