Natasha Simons can read 700 words per minute, cites her final paper for Jeffrey Cohen’s Chaucer course as one of greatest accomplishments as an undergraduate, had a 3.8 GPA., and had two and a half years of publishing internships. Naturally one would expect a woman as talented and experienced as her to get a job…
So you’re snowed in from Friday through Sunday morning. What to do? Consider adding one of these upcoming events of interest to your calendar: The BIG READ, featuring Howard Jacobson, author of Kalooki Nights. Even if you haven’t finished the novel, and even if you weren’t one of the 200 lucky people who picked up…
English is said to overlap with many other disciplines: American studies, theater, linguistics, and more. But how about psychology? Maybe this would not be your first connection, and even Marshall Alcorn is not the first to claim that the two subjects go together. Our Director of the English Undergraduate Studies, Director of Human Sciences, and…
Quick pop quiz (answer “yes” or “no” only):1) Are you a genius at saying things in 140 characters or fewer?2) Are you interested in what’s going on in the English department, in English courses, among English professors and students, and in the wider GW English community?3) Do you want to feel even more connected to…
Readers of this blog know that Prof. Robert McRuer has twice taken lucky students in his “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” to Prague for the annual Czech Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. For GWU students and for Robert, a highlight of the course is getting to know their counterparts in the Czech Republic. Now,…
So you’re wondering what to do before the English Department’s BIG READ on February 11 at 4 p.m. in Rome 771? (That event, as you recall, will give you an exclusive audience with the fabulously witty and talented Howard Jacobson, known to Brits as a novelist, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, and all-around public intellectual, and yet…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg may be a “freak of nature” as she describes herself. From meeting her earlier on Thursday, I certainly found her charming, witty, and quirky in the best possible way, so her self-labeling at her reading at the DCJCC was odd to me. Then again, Goldberg could be seen as a…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg describes her first novel Bee Season as a “personal” novel, but do not mistake personal for autobiographical. The tale of young Eliza Naumann, a spelling prodigy and potential mystic, is not Goldberg’s own. “My first spelling bee was in fourth grade. I lost on the word ‘tomorrow,’” she said when…
GW Today has spotlighted some famous writers that set their novels in DC! Two publications linked to the English department were highlighted. Congrats again to David McAleavey, Christina Daub, and Ramola Dharmaraj for their work on Full Moon on K Street. Congrats are also in order for Thomas Mallon whose book Fellow Travelers was chosen…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE It may seem hard to believe, but your beloved blogger (at least I hope I am beloved) was not always so studious and interested in books (read infiltrating the English department). Back in the day, I was just another five year old who could not recite the alphabet or tie her shoes….
