Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize

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…

No, that’s not me. That’s the guy who played the Maytag Repairman on TV. More about that later. It’s a pleasure to have been handed the keys to this blog from Jeffrey Cohen, our Department’s Chair Emeritus (a title I have just now invented and summarily bestowed). To be honest, it’s also a bit daunting….

MICHAEL CHABON MONDAY MARCH 23 7 PMJACK MORTON AUDITORIUM Michael Chabon’s first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was a New York Times bestseller. His second Wonder Boys (1995), was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. His young adult novel, Summerland, won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature….

Congratulations to Professor Tara Wallace, who published two essays this summer: ‘Reading the Metropole: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of Hindoo Rajah’ in Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750 to 1832 (Ashgate 2009): 131-142; ‘Thinking Globally: The Talisman and The Surgeon’s Daughter’ in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan…

The GW English Department congratulates alumnus Jason Filardi on the premiere of his new film 17 Again. Jason is currently teaching a screenwriting course for 15 lucky GW undergraduates. He is also an incredibly nice guy who happens to be a natural in the classroom. Good luck with the film, Jason! Share on FacebookTweet

Every year the English Department reports on its progress and achievements to the university. I thought readers of this blog might enjoy the glimpse it yields of the year that was. ————— CCAS Department Annual Report 2008-09ENGLISH IA Undergraduate studies * Majors, minors, double majorsMajors: 191 in English, 10 in English and Creative Writing; minors…