You may have seen senior Anya Firestone on the Dangerous Liaisons posters throughout campus a month ago. Or perhaps you have seen the fashionista in the flesh standing out in her heels and dress in a sea of flannel. However, this summer you will find Firestone in Paris, France. Firestone will be graduating this month,…
Members of the Class of 2010 and their guests are cordially invited to celebrate with the English Department on May 15 from 1:30-3 p.m. in Phillips 411 (note changed time and location). A short program, including greetings, the announcement of departmental awards, and poetry recitations for the occasion, will commence at 2 p.m. Light refreshments…
Thomas Mallon is in GW Today. Read the article below! Wordsmith of Washington Critically acclaimed novelist will lead GW’s creative writing program. By Jennifer Price May 3, 2010 Thomas Mallon, who will become the head of GW’s creative writing program later this month, didn’t start writing fiction until he was in his 30s. As a…
You know you are an English major/professor when you are dorky enough to wear this t-shirt. Thanks to (from left to right) Tess Malone, Gayle Wald, Connie Kibler, and Jeffrey Cohen for making t-shirt day happen!
On Friday, May 7 at 3 p.m., the University Seminar on 19th-Century British Histories will be gathering at the Corcoran for its last meeting of the academic year. The meeting will feature an illustrated talk by Prof. Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) titled “Of Fungi and Fables: Beatrix Potter and the Science of Storytelling.” The…
[Bagel photos by Tess Malone. Photo of Connie Kibler & Tess Malone by Jeffrey Cohen] Shouldn’t you be in Rome 760 right now? You should be sitting in that third chair in the photo. Enjoying a delicious bagel provided by the wonderful Gayle Wald, wearing your incredibly dorky, but awesome English t-shirt, and generally reveling…
Professor Jeffrey Cohen writes to tell you about his fantastic Myths of Britain course next fall. There are still a few spots left, so make sure to sign up. You are guaranteed an amazing semester. This was the course that affirmed why I wanted to be an English major! The English Department recently gave my…
Our very own Jane Shore will be judging, along with writer/radio personality Garrison Keiller and actor Alfre Woodard. Host is John Leguizamo. The poetry recitation competition gets going at 7 p.m., but Prof. Shore notes that it’s better to get there EARLY.
Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. As many of you know, the G-PAC curriculum (the “PAC” is for “perspective,” “analysis,” and “communication”), which affects students entering GW in the fall of 2011, does away with the current General…
T Shirt Day is back this Wednesday, April 28, and you won’t want to be the only one in Critical Methods or lurking around the departmental candy bowl not proudly sporting a “We are Prose” shirt. There will be special treats in the English Department office (Rome 760) all day Wednesday for everyone wearing a…
