Big Reading WEDNESDAY

GPAs are for losers. Or so say the English Majors who work in the English Department Office (and with that attitude they will be working here forever because they will not get into a selective graduate school). Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Time: 7:30pm – 11:30pm Location: GW Mitchell Hall Theater Street: 514 19th St….

GW Today has spotlighted some famous writers that set their novels in DC! Two publications linked to the English department were highlighted. Congrats again to David McAleavey, Christina Daub, and Ramola Dharmaraj for their work on Full Moon on K Street. Congrats are also in order for Thomas Mallon whose book Fellow Travelers was chosen…

President Steven Knapp invites students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends  to AN EVENING WITH   TONI MORRISON   Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8-9 p.m. Lisner Auditorium 730 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison will speak about her life and her work. The evening will include readings from Ms….

The English Department is pleased to announced that Edward P. Jones will be teaching a special one credit course for a small number of GW students. English 193 (Studies in Contemporary Literature) will meet four Monday evenings in February from 6-7:30. Students will read four novels and discuss them with Mr. Jones: David Anthony Durham,…

Those of you who read University Diaries know that our own Margaret Soltan was recently interviewed by the BBC about Norman Maclean. You can listen to her interview here (scroll down a bit). Share on FacebookTweet

The first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature will be Edward P. Jones, an African American author of world fame. A DC resident, Mr. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004 for his stunning novel The Known World. Set in rural Virginia before the Civil War, this vividly imagined and beautifully composed…