The GWU English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series invite you to a reading by Scott Simon. NPR’s Scott Simon The event will be held: Thursday, October 29th 7:30 PM Gelman Library Room 702 Scott Simon is known as a broadcast journalist. He is, after all, the award-winning host of NPR’s Weekend Edition…
[Click banner image to enlarge] It’s pumpkin carving season! So it’s time for… Jack-O-Lit! Jack-O-Lit is our annual literary pumpkin carving event that is your opportunity to socialize with GW English faculty and librarians. Take a break from your studies and enjoy some food and good company. Date: Monday, October 26 Location: Kogan Plaza Time: 3-4:30pm…
Professor Holly Dugan reports on Shakespearean London, a short-term study abroad course that GW English will run again in the coming semester! Last March, my students and I travelled to London and Stratford as part of English 3446: Shakespearean London. We had the opportunity to study Shakespeare in some of the locations that defined his…
ENGL 3530 group examines a painting. The National Gallery of Art—one of the finest institutions of its kind on the globe—is a mile and a half away from the George Washington University Campus. The gallery’s physical and financial accessibility (it’s free!), peacefulness, and gorgeous collection demand a visit, which is one of several reasons that…
On October 2, GW English hosted “American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies: The Work of Ann Romines. Full details of the event can be read here. Below are some photos from the successful event. Thanks to all who attended! Professor Ann Romines (pictured here with GW English PhD Charmion Gustke) retired this year after…
One Book. One City. One Good Read. That is how DC Reads, a DC Public Library literacy program that promotes reading for pleasure by having citywide celebrations for teens and adults that focus on one book, opens its description of this year’s selection. Each year a new book is selected by a public nomination process. This…
Join us today to celebrate the work of Ann Romines: American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies 2-2:30: Phillips Phillips B-120 3-4:30 PM: Myers Room, GW’s Textile Museum Full information on today’s events can be found here. As an added bonus, Professor Romines’s collection of 19th Century American quilts are on display in the Textile Museum, along…
Madrid’s Plaza Mayor at night This semester, I’m taking a course on the British Romantic Period. In class a few weeks ago, my professor was talking about how although the seventeenth century was a period of greater international connectivity, there was also a simultaneous turn inwards, a growth in and shift towards nationalistic ideology. He…
(Thomas Mallon on tour last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo credit: Robert Birnbaum) Thomas Mallon, acclaimed novelist and former Director of Creative Writing at GWU, has just published his ninth novel, Finale, to wide critical acclaim. His account of the Reagan administration “blends his singular knowledge of political history with his limitless imagination to capture…
Join us for New Writing from South Asia! The Fall for the Book Festival and the The Writer’s Center in Bethesda hosts its first South Asian literary afternoon on Saturday October 3rd 2015. The event will kick off at 2 pm with a panel discussion on gender, visual culture, and public space, with our very own Professor Kavita Daiya (who this…
