Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize

by Robert Ganz Longtime departmental supporter Violet McCandlish passed away recently. Professor Robert Ganz has compsoed this tribute For many of us in the department, Violet McCandlish was a very supportive, colorful, warm and essential presence. In 1966, the year after George McCandlish took over the early American “slot”—which he filled so well—Violet and the…

The English Department congratulates Professor Robert McRuer, whose book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability has been awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award. This award is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Language Association. The judge’s report on Crip Theory declares: The members of the Committee were…

Associate Professor Antonio López’s first book, Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America, has just been released by New York University Press.  Professor Ricardo Ortiz of Georgetown University, author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, says of the book, “Unbecoming Blackness promises to make a transformative impact on Cuban American Literary Studies; it will certainly…

Here is the tentative schedule for the spring meetings of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (or GW MEMS, as we like to call it). The seminar is open to anyone who is interested in attending. Anyone not on our email list who would like to be may contact the seminar’s rapporteur, Lowell Duckert…

A group of English graduate students has just announced the debut of a new online open-access journal Prefix. The journal has a clean, sleek look and a cool logo (see above). According to its mission statement, Prefix provides an open forum for graduate student work, including work-in-progress, and encourages reader interaction with its postings. It…

T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever Lenthall House (606 21st Street, b/t F&G)  Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.  Sign up for a slot (5 mins.) on the sheet in the English department office (Rome 760).  Poets, prose writers, dramatists, screenwriters all welcome!…