Beth Lattin in Forbes

Jim Miller, the chair of American Studies and a very popular professor of English (he is widely regarded as the sanest member of the department, but that might not be saying all that much) will spend the spring semester at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he will lecture on and research black Atlantic…

Good news! President Steven Knapp has written to inform us that the GW Medieval and Early Modern Institute has been chartered from December 2008 to December 2012, contingent upon continued adequate funding. Thank you, everyone, for your support … and we look forward to the years ahead with you. All of our events are free…

For alumna, Katy DiSavino, being a playwright was not really a choice, it was in her blood. As the daughter of parents who own a theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, DiSavino has been acting since she was child. Determined to breakout of theater once she went to GW, DiSavino sat her parents down for the long…

You may have heard that we have decided to celebrate the successful residency of Edward P. Jones in GW’s English Department with neither a bang nor whisper, but with what might be called a whispered bang. Admittedly that does not sound right. So let’s just say that we are holding an event that does not…

This message is addressed to the wealthy potential donors who read our blog religiously. We know there are many of you out there, even if so far you have failed to send a sign of your actual existence. A frustration for faculty and students alike is that we possess no welcoming space outside of the…

Salutations from the new English Department Communications Liaison, Calder Stembel: “Liaison” is the first word on the first page of the first novel by Edward P. Jones. It is also the first word of a less renowned piece: this blog post. On the first of the first of 2009, “Liaison” is the first word of…