Do not miss Art Spiegelman tonight at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium (SMPA). Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers making presentations at GW through the “Jewish Literature Live” program. The series was generously funded by David Bruce Smith.
The Chair of the English Department resigned today to accept a job as provost of a newly formed online degree granting entity called Knowlidge U. “I will miss my colleagues, but not the ones who take too much chocolate from our department candy bowl, or the ones who make me look bad because they are…
On Sunday, April 19 at 7:00 pm, Sixth & I Historic Synagogue is hosting A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s most acclaimed authors (Harold Bloom dubbed him the “Israeli Faulkner”). He will be reading from his latest novel, Friendly Fire, and discussing the book with Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic. Tickets are $12…
So were going to have our First Annual T-Shirt Thursday Extravaganza this Thursday. As it turns out, though, we did not give students and faculty enough time to order their T-shirts from Zazzle. Also, “T-Shirt Thursday” does not alliterate. SO ORDER YOUR SHIRT NOW. We are about to discontinue this model, so you will be…
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE In early April we’ll be awarding the prestigious Academy of American Poets College Prize to a G.W. student. Thanks to grants from the Jenny McKean Moore Fund for Writers and Columbian College in 1990, G.W. was able to join the influential Academy, founded in 1934 to support American poets and…
The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, author of MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Skoog will teach ENGL 181, a poetry writing workshop, both semesters, and will helm a free creative writing workshop open to the Washington, D.C. community…
The English Department thanks the forty-one students who submitted poems for our first annual Poetry Contest. The winner will be announced on this blog in April.
Photos courtesy of Rick Reinhard.
Media Credit: Aude White/Hatchet photographerFrom today’s edition: English department hosts renowned Jewish authorMichael Chabon delivers reading in Jack Morton by Joe MancinikHatchet Reporter Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s reading in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday night included pieces ranging from his thoughts on President Obama’s election to his own son’s circumcision. Chabon appeared as part…
Each year under the rubric of “Studies in Contemporary Literature,” the English Department brings you the chance to study for a time with a visiting international scholar or writer. The course is typically structured around a kind of “book club” format, with readings in four works (usually novels) over four nights. Students compose a reflection…
