Beth Lattin in Forbes

Karen Russell, a young American writer who was recently featured in The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” list of young American literary talents, reads tonight from her latest work. The reading, the last of the year in the English Department’s Jenny McKean Moore series, is at 8 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. All are welcome….

One day Thomas Mallon looked out his office window in Rome Hall and had a strange sense of déja vu. “I look out into the apartment of one of my characters,” he said. Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers was set in 1950s DC, at which point the dorm West End was an apartment where he placed…

Jason Fillardi, who will be teaching a course on screenwriting next semester, provides the GW English blog with this brief biography:“Jason Filardi grew up in Mystic, Connecticut and now resides in Los Angeles, California. But before moving to LA, he spent four of the best years of his life studying English at the George Washington…

A packed crowd listens to Jane Bennett’s keynote address at the recent GW MEMSI conference. GW MEMSI hosted an extraordinary conference March 11-12. “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in Early Modern and Medieval Periods” drew an amazing array of speakers to campus for lively discussion. Here is a wrap-up of the event by English…

Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. Prof. Evelyn Schreiber’s book Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Louisiana University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2010-2012 Toni Morrison Society Book Prize, given every other year for the best single-authored book on Morrison’s work. The award was announced at the African American…

We have at our helm a president who is no longer quite so new. Steven Knapp is beginning to leave an imprint upon the institution, most notably in a reshuffling of important administrators. EVPAA Don Lehman is retiring. A search for a new provost is underway: this person will be responsible for the day to…