Beth Lattin in Forbes

From the latest By George! New GW Institute Brings Together Scholars in Medieval, Early Modern Studies Jeffrey J. Cohen, chair of GW’s English Department, leads the University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. By Julia Parmley Faculty across departments in GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences have been individually engaged in medieval and early…

[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…

I recently invited Vice President of Research Leo Chalupa to an English Department faculty meeting. His reaction surprised me: instead of averring that he was far too busy investing money in science policy and under-researched diseases (worthy causes, but not ones that especially attract humanist researchers to the table), he announced he’d be delighted to…

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Christina Beasley. Photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis. The first-place winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets’ University and College Poetry Prize is Christina Beasley ’12, an International Affairs major and Creative Writing minor. Christina will receive a $100 prize and a one-year membership to the Academy. Honorable mention goes to senior Annie-Rose Strasser, an…

The new semester is almost upon us: alarmingly (at least to me) GW classes begin BEFORE Labor Day this year. I am certain that some cosmic injunction has been broken, and am hard at work trying to stop it … but without much success so far. This summer we have been renovating Rome Hall 771,…