Beth Lattin in Forbes

The 2011-2012 English Graduate Student Association announces the arrival of the GW EGSA Blog! Here is a report by graduate student Tawnya Ravy: In an effort to stay in touch with English graduate students and to offer regular updates on events, we decided to create this blog. We see it as an exciting opportunity to…

[fig 1: The IMDb doesn’t know what Dante looks like]by J J Cohen So John Filardi, an alumnus of the GW English Department, is here teaching a course on screenwriting, focused upon comedy. By all accounts it has been a terrific class. Today he invited Emmanuella Chiriqui (Sloan from Entourage) to his class. When I…

In the spring semester a number of seats will be reserved in our Introduction to Creative Writing classes and awarded via application. The form is below, and can also be picked up in the English Department main office.—————–Application for ENGL 81W Date: Name: School: Major (if any): Hours completed: E-mail: Phone: Choose one: [ ]…

Please join us on Thursday April 24 for a talk by Kathleen Biddick: “The Political Theology of the Archive: Reflections on a Project” The author of The Shock of Medievalism (Duke 1998) and The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, History, Technology (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), Kathleen Biddick is professor of history at Temple University. The talk…

The office of department chair yields much fodder for complaint: the hours can be long (yesterday I arrived on campus at 7:15 AM, and wasn’t home until 9:00 PM), the paperwork an endurance test, personnel issues can mount, deadlines come like piranha schools and nibble your soul to its skeleton, the tiny aggravations can accumulate…

Kathleen Rooney, a 2002 graduate, brings us much pride as a GW alum. Through my email exchanges with Kathleen, I have been continually impressed with how accomplished and gracious she is. Her thorough and insightful answers prove what a talented writer she is, and I’m sure many others will agree that we can all learn…