Art Spiegelman TONIGHT
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.
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.
At approximately 6:00 PM today, Edward P. Jones finished his inaugural reading as the first Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Literature. Now, I am finally able to reveal the truth behind the selection of Mr. Jones as the first Wang Visiting Professor. There exists a clause in the bylaws of the Columbian College of Arts…
Although you wouldn’t know it from the mild manner of those of us who inhabit Rome 760, the English Department has been quite busy lately. This is not Prof. Tongson at GW last week, although the set up was remarkably similar and the photo is in the commons! Last week, in addition to seeing the…
If you are Margaret Soltan, among the projects you might undertake are blog posts that capture vividly the experience of being by the sea in the off-season. Between land and water is a philosophical verge. Professor Soltan captures her own moment of drift in prose passage that reads like poetry. An excerpt: Off-season, the sand…
Check this out. Don’t miss the streaming video, with its Renaissance-y soundtrack. It’s quite excellent. An excerpt from the article: During weekly, three-hour classes, students study with a Folger scholar to learn how early books were made, the role they played in shaping culture, and how the medium of print and its reproduction shape a…
When I signed up for this course, I expected a contemporary British reading course, not too different than most literature courses that I have taken so far. Obviously, there was the difference of having Nadeem Aslam teach this course. However, I did not foresee a difference in the way we would discuss the literature –…
[illustration: from the Library of Congress’s rare books collection: The Book of Urizen by William Blake] GW alumnus Malcolm O’Hagan (class of 1966) has kindly arranged for a small group of GW students to have a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library of Congress, and the chance to admire up close some of its most precious…