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The English Department administers a biannual essay contest open to current GW freshmen, sophomores and juniors interested in parliamentary procedure. To enter, you must compose an essay of three to four hundred words on some aspect of parliamentary procedure as taught in Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised. The essay should be submitted under a…

The Department of English is pleased to announce that Josie Price has won the first annual Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Floor-Scrapers.” Josie will be awarded a prize of $500. We also expect her to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and/or a Pulitzer some day. The competition garnered forty-one excellent poems, and we…

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“What Does Asian American literature have to say about the issues raised by the recent discussion of Amy Chua’s book?” — This blog post is the third in a series by Prof. Patricia Chu. Read the first post here. Part Three:  Who’s afraid of the Wall Street Journal?  or, “I am the very Model of…

Hello everybody, my name is Rajiv Menon and I am the English department’s new communications liaison. I am a junior, majoring in English and International Affairs. In addition to working with the English department, I also intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and tutor at GW’s writing center. Also, in addition to writing…

Edward P Jones will read from The Known World and his short stories. He will take audience questions, and he will be introduced by President Knapp. PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS MILESTONE IN GW HISTORY. The event takes place at 5 PM on Thursday January 29 in the Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and…