GW English has just added a popular course taught by Professor Margaret Soltan to this fall’s schedule. Details below. ENGLISH 3661 Fall 2016 SOLTAN (CRN 17486) Twentieth Century Irish Literature II: THE MODERN IRISH LITERARY TRIUMPH Tuesday/Thursday 12:45 PM-2:00 PM This course will attempt to account for the staggering achievement – out of all proportion…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Claudia Rankine Join us on Monday, April 11th at 7:30PM in Gelman 702 for the next installment of The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Claudia Rankine, who will read from her new book, Citizen: An American Lyric. Her new work won both the PEN Open…
Please join us this Wednesday, April 6th, at the GW Textile Museum to hear Professor David McAleavey read from his new book of poems, Rock Taught. Rock Taught is Professor McAleavey’s sixth book of poems, preceded by Sterling 403; The Forty Days; Shrine, Shelter, Cave; Holding Obsidian; David McAleavey’s Greatest Hits 1971-2000, and Huge Haiku….
Congratulations to English Professor Daniel DeWispelare and PhD Candidate Vicki Barnett Woods, who have both won awards for excellence within the Writing In the Disciplines program! They will be recognized for their accomplishments in the university-wide Faculty Honors Ceremony, on April 20th at 4:00 pm in the Jack Morton Auditorium, and will receive a…
A week from today Professor Margaret Soltan will be delivering the first in a series of three lectures at the Georgetown Public Library. Full information, including registration information for this event (free and open to the public), is below! Professor Margaret Soltan The lectures will be offered on three Saturdays:Lecture One: Winter kept us warm: Poetry…
The English Department: Are You a Member? Faculty and majors in the English Department look forward to hosting potential majors this Wednesday and Thursday from 4-6 PM each day. For the first time ever, the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences is holding their annual majors fair in the actual departments. That means that students…
The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase Friday, February 12 12:30 – 3 p.m. Please RSVP here #GWDH16 Everyone is invited to a showcase of Digital Humanities (DH) projects underway across the George Washington University. The program will include brief presentations followed by discussion and a reception. Find out about innovative endeavors happening in Classics, The Elliot…
Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings! Friday, February 12th from 9 AM- 6:30 PM Gelman 219 This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…
Doing Shakespeare While Black? By Alexa Alice Joubin In Robeson’s Footsteps: Black and Asian Shakespeare Now, a conference organized by the University of Warwick, January 15, 2016. Race is an uncomfortable but important topic in our age of globalization. In the art and entertainment industry, race is both visible and invisible in various forms of embodiment….
Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…
