Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize

During the month of February, renowned British novelist Howard Jacobson will be teaching, reading, and inspiring students at GW. Following Nadeem Aslam and Suhayl Saadi, Jacobson is the third and culminating GW-British Council Writer in Residence. His most famous book is the wonderfully funny, perverse, and sad Kalooki Nights. We have 200 copies of the…

Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 PM at the George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets (City View Room, 7th Floor). More information about Suhayl Saadi may be found here at the British Council…

Most readers of this blog know that the GW English Department has been off to a great start this semester, with a range of successful events.  If you follow us on Facebook (and if you don’t, you should!–check out how easy it is with the button on the right side of this page), you also…

Cathy Eisenhower, the Gelman Library subject specialist for English, has created two excelelnt research guides that will be of great use to many who read this blog: British Literature American Literature Thank you, Cathy! Share on FacebookTweet

Mention the Pulitzer Prize, and you’ll conjure images of a weathered novelist, scowling over the rim of his snifter. If the Pulitzer laureates at GW are any indication, however, a comic book sketch is a more accurate image. In the span of two weeks, the GW English Department has hosted Michael Chabon and Art Spiegelman,…

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…