David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…
Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to accompany Lloyd Schwartz’s interview about editing the Elizabeth Bishop Library of America volume coming out on Valentine’s Day.
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This past fall saw the inaugural class of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar. Focused on “Books and Early Modern Culture,” the seminar is the first offering of the new Undergraduate Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The seminar was developed with the support of the Dean’s office of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences…
A reminder — Nadeem Aslam, our first British Council Writer in Residence, will be reading from his work tonight at 7 PM in the Marvin Center Amphitheatre. Nadeem Aslam is the author of two prize-winning novels, SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS and MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS. His third novel, THE WASTED VIGIL, will be published this…
Mr. Aslam was worth the wait! Despite last fall’s disappointment that Mr. Aslam could not arrive as planned, we welcome him now to GW. Tuesday night marked the beginning of the month-long seminar that Mr. Aslam will be conducting for ten undergraduates. The one credit course includes reading three novels by contemporary British authors and…
The following is taken from Tayari Jones’s recent essay “Symbolism and Cynicism,” published in The Believer: The irony is that those who would opt out of Black History Month share the goals of its founder. Although many black people grumble that it is not their responsibility to educate white people about our worth, most would…
Professor Robert McRuer recently won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Since Prof. McRuer began to further his unique research in the combined fields of queer and disabilities studies, he has also edited an anthology, taught at GW, and continued to develop his ideas….
Last fall, I had the privilege of attending the GW-Folger Seminar, and it was a truly amazing opportunity. In order to encourage other students to take advantage of this unique course, I’d like to share my experiences. The early modern book history course is an interdisciplinary study incorporating history and literature, and it will enhance…
The invention of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century played a major role in the creation of Renaissance culture and in the development of the modern world. Without the printing press, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution might not have spread throughout Europe, poem- and novel-writing might not have become viable professions,…
