Gabriel Muller, an English minor who graduated in 2013, is working for Atlantic Media here in DC (in the Watergate building, in fact). Below, he shares his thoughts about school and after school. I majored in History with minors in English and Philosophy – the humanities trifecta. For the hesitant humanists out there who think…
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
Perfumed Letters: a roundtable discussion of perfume & literature Author Alyssa Harad Friday, February 21st 11-1 pm Marvin Center Rm. 301 The event will be host to: Emily Friedman, Associate Professor of 18th Century English Literature (Auburn University) Alyssa Harad, author of Coming to My Senses: a Story of Perfume, Pleasure & an Unlikely Bride Colleen…
#Altac / #Postac: Rethinking the PhD Job Search in the Humanities Thursday, February 20th from 4-6pm in Rome Hall room 771 With graduation just around the bend undergraduate and graduate students alike are asking themselves the same question: What do I do with a humanities degree? Come to this roundtable discussion and find out! Whether you’re…
Don’t miss out on the EGSA‘s 4th Graduate Symposium Friday, February 7th, 2014! This year the topic is “Posting: A Symposium on What Comes Next” This year’s EGSA symposium focuses on scholarly work that explores the “post”: of race, space, nationality, humanism, and queerness. We will attempt to answer difficult questions such as, What are we trying…
The Jewish Literature Live Spring Line-Up is HERE! And you won’t want to miss a single author! The first reading with Dara Horn will be Thursday night! Dara Horn Dara Horn- A Guide for the Perplexed Jan. 30 in Marvin Center 311 at 7:00PM Anouk Markovitz– I am Forbidden Feb. 13 in the Marvin Center…
Lisa Page Our own Lisa Page will be sitting down and interviewing Molly McCloskey, George Washington’s Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Residence, this Wednesday (January 27th) at 7pm at the Hill Center. The event is free and certainly not to be missed! Molly McClosky McCloskey is well known on GW’s campus for her popular creative non-fiction class,…
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
The Knicknackery, a new literary magazine was started by Keren Veisblatt Toledano ’09 and Sonja Vitow ’09, former editors of GW literary publication le culte du moi. Keren and Sonja wrote in to describe their new venture: “THE KNICKNACKERY IS A COLLECTION OF SMALL, ECLECTIC THINGS. SO ARE WE. We’re looking for work that plays jump rope…
Professor Marshall Alcorn’s book Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching was published in September of this year by Palgrave Macmillan. Resistance to Learning has already received high praise and is the latest in Professor Alcorn’s works that focus on education. As our semester was winding down, GW English Communications Liaison Samantha Yakas asked him…
