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Shakespeare in the Mediterranean: Summer 2015
Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience. Venetian Canals Dubrovnik from the hills This is your opportunity to travel in his stead. Make the voyage to Venice and read Othello and the Merchant of Venice along its canals; journey to Verona and read about…
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MARGARET SOLTAN AT GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND AT BOOKS@WORK
Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library. Here’s the…
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Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age
GW English PhD (’08) Myra Remigio-Leonard is among the DC librarians working to organize a series of events in January titled “Orwellian America.” “Orwellian America is a series of programs focused on government transparency and personal privacy in the digital age during the last two weeks of January. Events include a screening of “The Internet’s…
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UPDATED: Jewish Literature Live is Back: Spring 2015 Schedule
Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard’s schedule now requires her to stay in Los Angeles for rehearsals of four episodes of Two Broke Girls. It will be great to see her on the show, but it unfortunately means that her appearance is cancelled for…
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Professor Frederick Pollack Publishes New Poetry Collection
GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by Story Line Press. GW English is happy to announce that his collection of shorter poems, A Poverty of Words (Prolific Press), will appear in a few weeks. Many other poems of his have appeared in…
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GW English Alums on the Move: Nirmala Menon (PhD ’08)
Nirmala Menon GW PhD, 2008 “YOU NEVER QUITE GROW UP FROM WANTING TO CHANGE THE WORLD” – Nirmala Menon talks about her career, and about GW After she earned her PhD from GW’s English department, Nirmala Menon took an Assistant Professor position at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Four years later, she decided to…
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Margaret Soltan Featured in Times Higher Education on Internet Privacy
In a cautionary piece about teaching university-sponsored online courses, Times Higher Education (THE) quotes extensively from Professor Margaret Soltan’s remarks about the subject on her blog, University Diaries: “All sorts of eyes are peering into your online course. . . . Your students, naturally; but also university administrators, on-campus tech people, the for-profit firm your school has…
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