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Kevin Callahan It’s a pleasure to welcome two new student bloggers for English for spring 2012.  Junior Kevin Callahan,  an English major and journalism minor, is editor of the G.W. Review, one of GW’s two literary magazines. Since last fall, he has also been features editor of the GW Cherry Tree yearbook. In his free…

English major Jessica Chace recently wrote to ask what folks in the English department were reading this summer, so we did a quick poll. Here are reports from far-flung students and faculty:  Jessica Chace is finishing up The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. “The title is a bit of misnomer,” she writes, “–it’s actually…

From the latest issue of By George!: In January, James Arthur Miller, chair of GW’s Department of American Studies and professor of English and American studies, will leave for University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he will collaborate with a colleague on a course on black Atlantic literature. Dr. Miller explains the subject…

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Professor Gayle Wald is once again teaching her very successful English 40W, Literature of the Americas. She was recently thumbing through old GW Bulletins and reports on her archival work: In preparation for ENGL 40, our Literature of the Americas class, I decided to look at GWU Bulletins once a decade, beginning in 1918-1919 and…

Those of you who have been by the English department on the 7th floor might have noticed the department’s empty bulletin board. To put it to use, I’d like to suggest creating a “featured undergraduate” section for the department, where picture and biographies of some of the English department’s undergraduates can be displayed each semester….