Beth Lattin in Forbes

The English Department will host a reception for graduating seniors on Saturday, 16 May from 1:30-3 p.m. in Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd Street, NW). We hope you can attend and will bring your family and friends to join in the celebration! Share on FacebookTweet

Check this out. Don’t miss the streaming video, with its Renaissance-y soundtrack. It’s quite excellent. An excerpt from the article: During weekly, three-hour classes, students study with a Folger scholar to learn how early books were made, the role they played in shaping culture, and how the medium of print and its reproduction shape a…

You can read a new prose poem by Prof. David McAleavey on the website of the journal Poetry Northwest. David’s poem, “Daylily Season,” appears as a Web-exclusive feature. Find out how King Lear, the lingering scent of cigarette smoke, an umbrella, high heels, and Lady Bird Johnson enter the poet’s imagination. You can even leave…

Professor Evelyn Schreiber and Undergraduate Nicole Welsh attended the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society this past summer. The event, which was hosted from July 24th-27th, took place in Charleston, South Carolina, which is an important site of the American slave trade. At this conference, Nicole presented a paper entitled “Can the Center…

Harvard University possesses a department with the verbose designation “English and American Literature and Language.” At a recent faculty meeting, Professor James Engell spoke on behalf of his faculty colleagues and moved that this name be changed to “Department of English.” The rationale for this transformation has clearly been plagiarized from the GW Department of…

Spring break has officially started (although some of you left yesterday, I’m jealous). Just because you plan on taking a week off from Geoffrey Chaucer and James Joyce, doesn’t mean you should stop reading. It’s time for “pleasure reading”! Maybe those words seem foreign to over caffeinated English majors who pound out more papers than…