Big Reading WEDNESDAY

T Shirt Day is back this Wednesday, April 28, and you won’t want to be the only one in Critical Methods or lurking around the departmental candy bowl not proudly sporting a “We are Prose” shirt. There will be special treats in the English Department office (Rome 760) all day Wednesday for everyone wearing a…

[action photo of blogging in motion by Nick Gingold] Follow this link to read a very good piece on why the English Department maintains a blog and Facebook page (short answer: we do it for you, the person reading this post, in the hope of community). Thank you, Calder Stembel, for writing a feature so…

Follow this link and fan us on Facebook. That was an imperative to be obeyed, not a request. And if you are reading this during class, close your laptop and pay attention to your instructor. Geesh. Share on FacebookTweet

I recently invited Vice President of Research Leo Chalupa to an English Department faculty meeting. His reaction surprised me: instead of averring that he was far too busy investing money in science policy and under-researched diseases (worthy causes, but not ones that especially attract humanist researchers to the table), he announced he’d be delighted to…

Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the opportunity to host visiting students or scholars who come to DC to take advantage of the resources at GW and in the city at large. Naglaa Mahmoud, a visiting student from Al Minya…

After having penned a cover review of Cynthia Ozick’s recent novel Foreign Bodies for the New York Times Book Review a little over a week ago, Prof. Thomas Mallon is featured in the latest New Yorker article, reviewing Jim Carroll’s posthumous offering, The Petting Zoo. Carroll, famous for his memoir The Basketball Diaries, was a…