Beverly Lowry, author of Who Killed These Girls? will read on February 22nd at 7:30 PM in Gelman Library, Room 702 as the next installation of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. From Penguin Random House: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has…
On Saturday, February 4th 2017, scholars, professors, and students from a wide range of disciplines came together within the newly renovated walls of The National Churchill Library & Center within The George Washington University’s Gelman Library to attend the GW Digital Humanities Institute’s 2017 Symposium: Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in…
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman was published in 2015 GW English is happy to announce that Professor Jeffrey Cohen’s 2015 monograph Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman will be awarded the Réné Wellek Prize for the best book in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). The ACLA writes that the Réné…
What you can do with your English major? Lots of jobs waiting for you. The GWU Department of English welcomes you to stop by our offices on the sixth floor of Phillips Hall on Wednesday Feb. 22 or Thursday Feb. 23 from 4-6 PM. We will have information about declaring the major or minor ……
Dear English Majors and Alumni, 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. If you can, please try to join…
Reading Distance: Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…
Thursday, 23 February, 2017, 4-5:00 pm Phillips 411 An excellent opportunity for graduate students, this seminar will help you plan and execute job search strategies, present opportunities for job seekers with a graduate degree, and help emphasize and showcase desirable traits and skills for employers. JENNIFER LINHART WOOD (PhD in English, George Washington University)…
Sunil Yapa will read from his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Wednesday, February 8th, 7:30 PM Gelman 702 A novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a boyish, scrappy world traveler…
The GW English Graduate Student Association Symposium 2017: (re)collections: Tracing Power & Community in Cultural Memory Date: Friday, February 24, 2017 Location: 219 Gelman…
“Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.” The 2017 Digital Humanities Institute symposium, “Global…
