Alumna Blog: Taylor Kate Brown

After having penned a cover review of Cynthia Ozick’s recent novel Foreign Bodies for the New York Times Book Review a little over a week ago, Prof. Thomas Mallon is featured in the latest New Yorker article, reviewing Jim Carroll’s posthumous offering, The Petting Zoo. Carroll, famous for his memoir The Basketball Diaries, was a…

Here is a list of planned public events offered by the English Department this spring. There is lots available for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends in the wider community. Please put at least one of these events on your calendar. Several other events are in the works; please check back here for updates. JLL…

You know that graduate school is getting to you when teaching a summer course is considered a “break.” While working on her dissertation on the dictator novel in Latin American and Franco- and Anglophone African literatures, GW alumna and current NYU graduate student Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, decided it would be good to slow down this summer…

Professor Margaret Soltan was interviewed last night on the Lehrer News Hour about Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Here’s the interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ . Follow the link on the lower right of the page. For a full account of the adventure, see Professor Soltan’s blog University Diaries. Share on FacebookTweet

Three students from this year’s Folger-GW seminar will be giving presentations on their research. The event is open to everyone, including folks who are not readers at the Library. Please pass the invitation on to others! Sarah. Please come to a presentation by students from the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar Philip Getz on Maimonides’s Canones…

Rachael Baird, our inaugural (and wonderful) Communications Liaison for the English Department, is now living in China. Check out her blog and get a glimpse of her life post-GW. Here’s an invitation to other English majors, current and former: if you have a blog, drop me a line and let me know. We’ll feature a…