Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize

Friday October 23 5 PM Marvin Center Continental Ballroom800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies “The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility and Disability” Introduction by José Muñoz, Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature University welcome by President Steven Knapp…

Hi, again. It’s me, Kirk. Did you hear about this?! [Washington Post]A grenade was found in Rock Creek Park this morning & removed by the army.Hooray! Efficiency! Like the Rock Creek’s maintenance worker, Gayle Wald “[saw] something, [said] something: she linked us to this post on Will Ostrem’s blog, Northern Light. The post highlights some…

Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…

Daria-Ann Martineau is the winner of a $500 prize for her poem “Orchids.” The English Department congratulates senior Daria-Ann Martineau, a speech and hearing major and creative writing minor, for her poem “Orchids,” which won this year’s Student Poetry Prize, awarded to the best poem submitted by a student at George Washington University. Martineau’s poem,…

I know I talk and write about this issue a great deal: I am passionate about it, because it is so central to my department’s mission and future.  The English Department has everything in place to be the envy of the Ivy League: excellent undergraduate majors, a world-class faculty whose research and creative work are…

Due to popular demand, we are bringing T-SHIRT DAY back! Let it be known that Wednesday April 28, 2010, aka the last day of regular classes for the spring 2010 semester, will be our second annual T Shirt Day. Click here for an overexposed photograph of a few of the department’s best-looking faculty, staff, and…