Please stop by the English Department office (Rome Hall 760) for tea, cookies, and sherry. If you are a current student, you are welcome to stop by for tea and cookies. We are legally obligated to slap your hand HARD if you reach for the sherry.
Please join us for the inaugural event of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI), a symposium on Touching the Past. The symposium begins at 1:30 in the fourth floor conference room of Phillips Hall (Academic Center, 801 22nd St NW) and lasts until 5. We feature two panels: Session One (moderated…
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Click to Enlarge. Thanks to David McAleavey and John O’Keefe for creating these great posters! Please note that the date and location for the first Suhayl Saadi reading has been changed.
Hey everybody, before I fill everyone in on all the great events going on this week, I want to welcome Kirk Larsen to the GW English blog! As an avid reader of The Colonialist, I know Kirk has a lot to bring to the blog. The biggest off-campus event this week is the National Book…
We will be offering a one credit, four evening course with our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi. You will have the chance to read three of his favorite novels and discuss them with him: Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker; How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman; and This Other…
Hello, I’m Kirk Hausmann Larsen. Even more, I’m the new student blogger.You might be asking yourself: “New student blogger? I didn’t know there was an old student blogger!” “What’s all this, then?” “Even more? More than what?!” “Why did he include his middle name? The pomp!” “A numbered list? Does he think I have all…
[action photo of blogging in motion by Nick Gingold] Follow this link to read a very good piece on why the English Department maintains a blog and Facebook page (short answer: we do it for you, the person reading this post, in the hope of community). Thank you, Calder Stembel, for writing a feature so…
Now that we have officially announced that Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will be our first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. The Known World follows the complicated history that unfolds around a Virginia plantation, owned…
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…
