Professor Gayle Wald GW English is happy to announce that English and American Studies Professor Gayle Wald is one of the new editors for 33 1/3, a special book series about music and sound published by Bloomsbury Press. The particular series for which Professor Wald will be one of the editors publishes short books on albums from…
Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to GWU as a call for students to write about what it means to be “citizens” at GWU in a time of political/racial polarization. The Citizen Project emphasizes the importance of creating a space where student…
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…
The George Washington University is happy to be hosting the second Washington Conference on Trauma this fall. This multi-disciplinary conference will feature a broad range of presenters and formats, addressing the effects of severe psychological trauma on individuals and society. Listening to Trauma: Insights and Actions Thursday, October 20th– Saturday, October 22nd 2016 Location: The…
Faulkner and Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics ENGL 3820W (CRN 15624) Professor Evelyn Schreiber Tuesday/Thursday 12:45-2:00 PM This exciting Fall 2016 course will comprehensively examine the works of two renowned and integral American authors, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, linking their fictional and discursive practices and analyzing how their works and ideologies reflect on each…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 7:30PM in Corcoran 111 for the next installment of The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Laura van den Berg, who will read from her new novel, Find Me. Find Me, “a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny…
Please join EGSA this Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Phil 629 for a candid discussion hour. Whether you are a Masters or Doctoral student, one of the central components of our work is producing a scholarly contribution in the form of a portfolio or dissertation. As we all know, this is never an easy…
Disability Studies: Composing Disability, or Why Art Matters ENGL 3910.10 (CRN 14687) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 12:45-2 This course offers a gateway into the interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies, a burgeoning field that examines the wide cultural meanings of disability across time and space. Our main objective will be to interrogate varied and capacious perceptions…
Note this NEW course being offered by Prof. Jonathan Hsy this fall! This course fulfills the pre-1700 requirement of the English major. Vikings, Mongols, Moors: A Global Middle Ages, Yesterday and Today ENGL 3830.10 (CRN 15259) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 9:35-10:50 Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Merlin, Vikings, Harry Potter: in popular…
Saturday, April 16th, 10AM-Noon Rome Hall, 771 Professor Anne McCarthy’s presentation for the Washington Area Romanticists Group is entitled “How To Love What You Don’t Understand: Discontinuous Subjects in Godwin’s Memoirs and Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence.” Refreshments, as always, will be served. This event will be of particular interest to students interested in Women’s Studies, the…
