Congratulations to Matt Munkacsy, winner of our T-Shirt contest! (This is NOT Matt in the picture above). To buy your own T-shirt, follow the link. Wear your shirt with pride. Make international affairs majors feel subliterate. Catalyze envy among chemistry majors. Give pre-med students a heart attack caused by agitation and desire. Let philosophy majors…
Although all of the Inauguration Festivities are likely in their own way to be worth attending, allow me to call your attention to two that you will not want to miss, both of them on Wednesday November 14. 1. “Cultural Mobility: The Travels of Shakespeare’s Cardenio” by Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English, Harvard University. In…
The course descriptions are online. Registration begins this week. Faculty will be holding extra office hours to lift holds and for advising.
This message is addressed to the wealthy potential donors who read our blog religiously. We know there are many of you out there, even if so far you have failed to send a sign of your actual existence. A frustration for faculty and students alike is that we possess no welcoming space outside of the…
The deadline for the T-shirt contest is Friday 11/2. Earn enduring fame via your clever logo! The deadline for applying for the new English Department Communications Liaison internship is Thursday 11/8. Here is the description and procedure: For the spring semester, the GW English Department is seeking a Communications Liaison, an internship position providing 3…
Dear English majors: A number of you have inquired about the deadline for applications to the English Honors program. I just wanted to give you all a quick update about the program, which is currently undergoing a period of reconstruction. Because the deadline for applications in previous years was the October of juniors’ fall semester,…
Help design a T-shirt for GWU English! The English Department is sponsoring a contest to design a T-shirt. Submit your (funny) phrase or design idea to chair@gwu.edu If your phrase or design is selected, you win a free T-shirt, and all the glory appertaining thereto. The winner of the T-shirt contest will be announced at…
English 40W: Myths of BritainSpring Semester 2008taught by Jeffrey J. Cohen Much great English literature turns out not to be so English after all: the action of the epic Beowulf unfolds in Scandinavia; King Arthur was a Welsh king before he was an English one; Shakespeare’s Tempest takes place on an island in the Mediterranean,…
Dear English majors, Please join us for a special event — a forum for English majors called FUTURES OF THE FIELD: THE ENGLISH MAJOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY English professors Herman Carillo, Jeffrey Cohen, Kavita Daiya, Robert McRuer, Jonathan Gil Harris, Gayle Wald, and Tara Wallace will speak about new directions, developments and possibilities in…
