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Michael Palmer Reading: Thursday, April 4th
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Michael Palmer Reading http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/creative-writing-reading-series-with-michael-palmer Thursday, April 4th, 2013 7:30 pm Honors Town House (714 21st St NW) http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2010/05/may- 2011-highlights.html Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco for over forty years. He has published over twenty books of poetry, and has often collaborated with visual artists, choreographers, and composers such as Gerhard Richter and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. His…

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Graduate Student Tawnya Ravy Wins Prestigious Fellowship
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Tawnya Ravy Graduate student Tawnya Ravy has won a prestigious Summer Research Fellowship for 2013 from the Northeast Modern Languages Association. This fellowship will allow her to travel to Emory University in Atlanta to work in the newly opened Salman Rushdie Archive at the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library, and to conduct critical research for…

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Essays

On the Road: Professor Hsy in Australia
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Professor Jonathan Hsy reports: No, the conference was not in Sydney — but apparently any blog posting about Australia requires a photo in front of the Sydney Opera House. Last month (mid-February), I had the pleasure of presenting my work at the Biennial International Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and…

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Ann Romines on Willa Cather’s Selected Letters
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Scholars working on Willa Cather, such as our own Professor Ann Romines, are very pleased with the beautifully-edited new edition The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, which Professor Romines calls an “amazing and transformative book.” From the Chronicle: Willa Cather’s letters are being made public for the first time. The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, due out…

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ACTING UP & Workshops: A Prelude to Tony Kushner
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Tony Kushner will be arriving in 20 DAYS! http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Tony+Kushner/tony-kushner-2013-writers-guild-awards-press-room-01.html Tony Kushner is coming to visit GW through the Jewish Literature Live Program thanks to a generous grant from David Bruce Smith. In conjunction with Kushner’s visit we have and will be running the ACTING UP film series and a series of Play Workshops focusing on…

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Ninth International Melville Conference to be held June 4-7
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Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After History • Politics • Nation • Memory The Ninth International Melville Conference Washington , DC • June 4-7, 2013 8:30 a.m., June 4, to 1 p.m., June 7 Featured Keynote Speakers Ken Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Ed Folsom (Universityof Iowa), Elizabeth Renker (Ohio State University), and…

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David Bezmozgis Reading: Tuesday, March 19th
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Don’t miss a reading with award-winning writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis Marvin Center Amphitheater 7:30pm Tuesday March 19th http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a68a2684-f1fe-11e1-bba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Np6oFdJg Bezmozgis is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Free World and Natasha and Other Stories, and is visiting GW as a guest of the Jewish Literature Live program. Natasha and Other Stories won the Toronto…

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A Reading by Edward Hirsch: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
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Priya Joshi Speaking at GW
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Priya Joshi will present “Rethinking the Theory of the Novel” March 6th at 3:30 pm in Rome 771 Priya Joshi Joshi asks: “What theory of the novel might emerge when it is based on anti-literary forms? How might attention to the anti-literary revise the history of the novel as it is presently conceived?” She uses…

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On the Road: Prof. Schreiber in Atlanta
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On Saturday, February 16, Professor Evelyn Schreiber was a guest speaker at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, at a one-day Symposium, “Reading Morrison, Reading Home: Male Kin and Family Matters,” sponsored by Spelman College and the Toni Morrison Society. The morning panel, moderated by Prof. Michelle Hite, Spelman College, focused on Morrison’s most recent novel, Home and…

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