Renowned British novelist Howard Jacobson will be our third GW-British Council Writer in Residence during February 2010. Like Suhayl Saadi and Nadeem Aslam before him, Mr. Jacobson will read four works of his choosing with students and discuss them informally over four Tuesday nights. Upon completion of the course students will turn in 5 pages…
The English Department office has been ornamented, garnished, embellished, trimmed and bedecked for the season. Stop by, grab some chocolate, and see if this year’s theme (“Decorating to Annoy”) has been a success.
We get excited about many things in the GW English Department. Our objects of affection range from guest lecturers to free copies of books being doled out. So naturally our enthusiasm has only doubled with the addition of the British novelist Howard Jacobson to our staff next semester as a visiting professor. Not only do…
Nao Bustamante Artist Lecturer Thursday December 10, 2009 4pm English Department Seminar Room Rome Hall 771 Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance, video and installation artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in galleries, museums, universities and underground…
We know that at this time of year many of our readers consider which organizations to support through their philanthropy. We hope that you will consider making an end of the year gift to the GW English Department … and we would like to think that the liveliness of this blog has made evident to…
Congratulations to Tom Mallon for the excellent review of Yours Ever: People and their Letters in the New York Times Review of Books. An excerpt: It is next to impossible to read these pages without mourning the whole apparatus of distance, without experiencing a deep and plangent longing for the airmail envelope, the sweetest shade…
Our gratitude to those who generously supported us last month: Ms. Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) Mr. Lawrence M. Dennee (parent) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (1987) Prof. Christopher Sten (faculty) Ms. Jennifer Lyman Wagner (1990) All contributions directly support our department’s mission. You can donate online here. Please make sure that you designate your gift to…
Including our own Jane Shore. Check it out! From the site: The Washington, DC, Poetry Tour reveals our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets, including Archibald MacLeish, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Elizabeth Bishop, among many others. From the hallowed halls of the federal buildings to neighborhood side streets, the tour features poems…
Politics & Prose BookstorewelcomesThomas Mallonauthor of Yours Ever:People and Their Letters Saturday, November 21, 1 p.m.5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW • Washington, DCwww.politics-prose.com • (202) 364-1919
Thanks to generosity of English Department alumnus David Bruce Smith, we will again be offering our Jewish Literature Live course in the spring semester (English 172.15). Students read novels by renowned writers of contemporary Jewish literature … and the authors come to the class to discuss their work. This class, offered by one of the…
