“The Homesick Restaurant”
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam has a beautiful little story in the New York Times magazine entitled “The Homesick Restaurant.” Check it out.
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Congratulations Constance Kibler!
Connie Kibler, without whom the day to day running of the English Department would be impossible, celebrates thirty five years of service to GW today. She was presented with a plaque at a special luncheon (to which she was accompanied by a VERY handsome date). Congratulations, Connie!
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Campus Wide Read and Book Giveaway
GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences will give away 1,000 copies of The Known World by Edward P. Jones. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington, D.C., resident, Mr. Jones is the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature. He will be in residence in the English Department during the entire spring semester of…
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Transatlantic Dialogue: Robert McRuer’s Class Goes to Prague
From today’s Hatchet, a piece on Prof. Robert McRuer’s innovative new class by Gabriella Schwarz: Most field trips for GW classes require a Metro farecard, but passports were necessary for 13 students in an English course this fall. The class, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” taught by professor Robert McRuer, went to the Czech…
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Professor Schreiber and Nicole Welsh Attend Conference on Toni Morrison
Professor Evelyn Schreiber and Undergraduate Nicole Welsh attended the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society this past summer. The event, which was hosted from July 24th-27th, took place in Charleston, South Carolina, which is an important site of the American slave trade. At this conference, Nicole presented a paper entitled “Can the Center…
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Stressed? Join the club
It’s that time of year, we know. We see it in your faces: worn out, sleep deprived, pale. We see how red your eyes are from peering at the computer screen, and that your fingers are turning into little nubs because you’ve been pounding at the keyboard. Your blood has more caffeine coursing through it…
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Folger Undergraduate Seminar Featured in Research Magazine: Now With Streaming Video!
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…
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Alumnus Kathleen Rooney Releases Another Publication!
Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and…
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Two Interesting and Timely Spring 2009 Courses Seek Students
Both these classes are taught by Professor Jennifer James. 185. 10 TR 12.45-2Slavery, Memory and History in Black Women’s WritingThis course explores how black women’s literature of the 20th and 21st century recalls and revises the memory and history of slavery in the Carribean and the U.S. The readings will range from fiction and memoir…
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Undergrads: Some Courses to Consider for SPRING
I know that all of you have already registered for your spring courses … but if you are not quite happy with (say) that boring class in international relations that you signed up for because you thought it would enable you to relate internationally, here are some great ENGLISH DEPARTMENT courses seeking students: 171W.10 Willa…
