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You know you are an English major/professor when you are dorky enough to wear this t-shirt. Thanks to (from left to right) Tess Malone, Gayle Wald, Connie Kibler, and Jeffrey Cohen for making t-shirt day happen! Share on FacebookTweet

David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…

The faculty of the English Department extends its very best wishes to our undergraduate majors as they finish their term papers and prepare for final examinations. For those who are completing their stay at GW, we look forward to seeing you at the CCAS Celebration, at Commencement … and especially at our annual reception for…

Friday October 23 5 PM Marvin Center Continental Ballroom800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies “The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility and Disability” Introduction by José Muñoz, Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature University welcome by President Steven Knapp…

DC Writer Jada Bradley attended our recent panel Knowing the Known World, and blogs about the experience at Examiner.com My thanks to everyone who attended and made the event such a success. I believe it was the largest literary event GW has ever offered exclusively for its alumni. Share on FacebookTweet

Through the generosity of a GW donor, the English Department will hold a competition this spring for the best student poem. The contest will be open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, regardless of major. We will award this substantial prize annually for the next five years. So, get writing. [image from here] Share on…