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We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet

Although you wouldn’t know it from the mild manner of those of us who inhabit Rome 760, the English Department has been quite busy lately. This is not Prof. Tongson at GW last week, although the set up was remarkably similar and the photo is in the commons! Last week, in addition to seeing the…

On Friday, May 7 at 3 p.m., the University Seminar on 19th-Century British Histories will be gathering at the Corcoran for its last meeting of the academic year. The meeting will feature an illustrated talk by Prof. Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) titled “Of Fungi and Fables: Beatrix Potter and the Science of Storytelling.” The…

Good news! President Steven Knapp has written to inform us that the GW Medieval and Early Modern Institute has been chartered from December 2008 to December 2012, contingent upon continued adequate funding. Thank you, everyone, for your support … and we look forward to the years ahead with you. All of our events are free…

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE There is a running joke in Jewish Literature Live that despite the course title no author will admit they are a Jewish writer. Typically most authors frown when posed the question of authorship and spend the next five minutes refuting the Jewish label. However yesterday’s afternoon with Gabriel Brownstein marked a turning…

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…