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Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. Prizewinning prose writer SanaKrasikov will read on Thursday night at 7 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater (3rd floor), concluding this year’s amazing Jewish Literature Live series curated by Prof. Faye Moskowtiz.     Krasikov, a Russian emigre,  is author of the collection of short stories, One More Year. …

It’s not often that a work of American literature makes the “Trending Topics” newsfeed at Twitter, but as of this writing, “Huckleberry Finn” is one of the most tweeted phrases online. You can read what some members of the GW English Department, myself included, had to say about the recent news that a forthcoming edition…

Below you will find the (almost) complete schedule for the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI). All events are free and welcome all who would like to attend. FALL SEMESTER 2009 September 17, 3-5 PM: Seminar on Messianic Time and the Untimely. Registration has closed, but please participate in the…

Menachem Wecker’s account of the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies: Gas Chambers and the Metro Lecture series opens with contrast of spaces for “worthy” and “unworthy” citizens by disability studies pioneer and author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. By Menachem Wecker Although Washingtonians often love to hate the Metro, they do not compare…

Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and…

The faculty of the English Department of the George Washington University welcomes all of our students to campus and to class. Best wishes for a very successful year. Share on FacebookTweet