Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2010 GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies on Friday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in 1957 E Street, room B12. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Here is…
On Thursday, October 28, a herd of anxious attendees–students, professors, the book-selling rep–heralded yet another successful reading in the fall JMM Reading Series. At 7:51 pm the doors remained locked; I (perhaps peevishly) took pleasure in each arriving individual, for they approached the shut doors and the unrelenting deadbolt with a fervor I found refreshing….
GW Professorial Lecturer in English Matt Fullerty, who is currently teaching ENGL 62 (Comedy) and ENGL 52W (English Literature), recently found himself in the middle of a national news story in the UK. Last weekend, a human skull was dug up in the garden of broadcaster/naturalist Sir David Attenborough in London. It turns out to…
On Thursday, Oct. 28 at 8 pm, the English department will host distinguished novelist Howard Norman reading from his latest and critically acclaimed work What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The latest in the department’s series of Jenny McKean Moore events, Norman’s reading will take place in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. The event…
Yesterday’s Plotzfest was a huge success. More than 100 people came out to hear our six wonderful speakers–Carolyn Betensky, Richard Flynn, Margaret Higgonet, Uli Knoepflmacher, John Plotz, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan–and celebrate Prof. Judith Plotz’s long and productive career. We heard papers about the “happy” and “unhappy in Victorian literature (Betensky), Randall Jarrell’s work for…
Join the English Department Wednesday, October 20 at 6 p.m. for a poetry reading by three GW creative writing faculty members: Frederick Pollack, Lara Payne, and Daniel Saalfeld. The reading, which will be held in at 1776 G Street NW, Room 148, is part of our “Jenny 2” series, sponsored by the Jenny McKean Moore…
The English Department is pleased to announce that our second annual Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Ahmed is the author of scores of articles and essays and several books, including Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects,…
We’re looking forward to greeting colleagues and friends from near and far for our fabulous Plotzfest conference in honor of Professor Emerita Judith Plotz on Friday. The fun begins at 10 am in the Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom, and continues throughout the day, with a culminating reception at 4 pm in Phillips 411. Please join…
The English Department is happy to be a co-sponsor of a reading/presentation by Ruth Franklin, author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, at the DC Jewish Community Center on Tuesday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m. The reading is part of the DC JCC’s Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival,…
We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard!
