We’re not quite there yet. But it is Spring Break. Here’s what students and professors are doing over the break: Prof. Tara Wallace will be flying to Vancouver to present a paper at the annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Prof. Christopher Sten will be traveling to Minnesota to see family, and…
Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…
Last Wednesday, I had the fortune of seeing GW English professors Michelle Brafman, Mary Tabor and Lisa Page, in a reading that displayed an amazing array of talent. The three writers, also fiction and creative writing professors in the GW Creative Writing department, were part of a series of readings entitled “Jenny 2,” in conjunction…
Prof. Schreiber toasts Toni Morrison (seated, at left) at her birthday celebration at the Library of Congress last week. This guest post is from Prof. Evelyn Schreiber. On Feb. 18, Profs. Evelyn Schreiber, Jennifer James, and H.C. Carrillo attended the 80th Birthday Reception for Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison at the Madison Hall of…
This post is guest blogged by Prof. Gregory Pardlo. It seems we have not quite put AWP behind us. One of the controversies enlivening the recent writer’s conference has now managed to capture the imagination of people outside the literary community. Picked up by the Associated Press, the debacle over what is now known as…
Prof. Robert N. Ganz delivered a “Last Lecture” to more than 100 friends and colleagues. Prof. Robert Ganz’s unique legacy of teaching that began in 1964 culminated Friday February 18 with an honorary “last lecture” that drew friends, alumni, former students and colleagues. Although I never personally had a class with Prof. Ganz, I was…
Prof. Ganz enjoying time outside of the English Department Prof. Robert Ganz, an integral component of the GW English Department since 1964, will retire this spring. As a valued professor and scholar of Robert Frost and modernism, Prof. Ganz has seen the growth of the GW English department, as well as the different eras filled…
That’s me at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in conversation with Lauren Onkey last week. Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at a screening of the new documentary Godmother of Rock: The Rosetta Tharpe Story at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. The event kicked off…
You can read a new prose poem by Prof. David McAleavey on the website of the journal Poetry Northwest. David’s poem, “Daylily Season,” appears as a Web-exclusive feature. Find out how King Lear, the lingering scent of cigarette smoke, an umbrella, high heels, and Lady Bird Johnson enter the poet’s imagination. You can even leave…
Last weekend I was thrilled to have an all-access pass to the 2011 AWP Conference (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) here in DC. With a badge and notebook in hand for coverage, I trekked over to the Wardman Park Hotel on a beautiful afternoon with no idea what to expect. Little did I know…
