Fall 2017: Literature and the Environment
This seminar explores how the nonhuman world is depicted in literature and film, and the value of sustained attentiveness to environments with these works and within the larger world.
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Morrison and Faulkner Fall 2017 with Professor Schreiber
An Exciting Fall 2017 English Course Offering: This exciting course links authors Toni Morrison and William Faulkner through the ways in which their fictional and discursive practices reflect on each other. Specifically, we will examine how the texts of both authors reenact and resist racism and patriarchal structures; how they explore the ways in which memory…
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READING YOUR WORK ALOUD
The JMM Reading series and the GW English Department present: MASTER CLASS: READING YOUR WORK ALOUD with Lloyd Schwartz Lenthall House, 606 21st Street April 18th 7:00 pm Join us for a talk/workshop to discuss and practice what makes a good poetry or fiction reading! Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and…
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Memorials in Harry Potter: A Scholarly Conversation
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…
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Lauren Camp to Read on Thursday, March 22nd (Tomorrow!) at the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series
Join us tomorrow, Thursday March 22nd, in Gelman 102 for the next installment of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring: Lauren Camp A poet, performer, writer, and educator, Lauren Camp will read from the latest of her three books of poetry, One Hundred Hungers, a collection that “explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and…
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Teaching and Learning in a Time of Intolerance
Please join the English Department faculty for informal and wide ranging conversation. The faculty of the English Department care about you — not just as intellectuals and artists (you wow us every day in those roles), but as young people navigating a difficult present. Please know that our office doors are always open to you….
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March 21 is Write Like a Scribe Day
Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day. View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…
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Want a Job with that English Degree?
Majoring in English prepares you for an exciting career. Don’t miss this post by Paul T. Corrigan. An excerpt: You’re going to have to do a little work to get a job and build a meaningful career. (Put working on your writing at the top of the list!) Majoring in English isn’t just about preparing you for…
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Why and How to Become an English Major: March 3!
This announcement went out via the Thurston Hall listerv, but anyone who is interested in declaring an English major or minor at GW is very welcome to attend! If you’re even considering a major/minor in English or Creative Writing, come out to the English department’s upcoming info session in Thurston! This program, formally titled “Why And How…
