Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers making presentations at GW through the “Jewish Literature Live” program. The series was generously funded by David Bruce Smith.
An alumnus of the GW English department, David Bruce Smith, recently donated to the faculty a copy of Tennessee, a deluxe edition of three plays by Tennessee Williams with six beautiful illustrations by Clarice Smith. The presentation is stunning. A large and elegant box wrapped in soft black leather and imprinted with gold lettering opens…
Please Join the Department of English for the Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading Thursday January 29 at 5 PMThe Jack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, First Floor Free and open to all, though seating is limited The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World, Mr. Jones is the Wang Visiting Professor of…
Well, not just attends … she also explicates and converses. Event information below. What’s On at the Folger Keeping Up Appearances Folger Theatre: The School for Scandal In Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic masterwork, things are not what they seem. As director Richard Clifford notes, “People seem greater than they are as the veneer of respectability…
As chair of the department I’m in frequent contact with our alumni, men and women who have gone on to an array of careers that — quite frankly — amaze me in their variety and their ambition. I noticed during my first year as chair, however, a puzzling phenomenon: our current majors and former majors…
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…
Seeing Shakespeare rarely conjures up the taste of jerk chicken or the sounds of Bob Marley, but that is not to say that the Bard was not meant for the beaches of the Caribbean. These were exactly Timothy Douglas’ thoughts when directing a Much Ado About Nothing set during the 2009 DC Caribbean Festival at…
