Big Reading WEDNESDAY

If you want to keep up via Facebook with all things related to the Edward P. Jones residency, join this group. And in case you’ve only recently emerged from a cave on a deserted island and/or have just been released after long abduction by alien beings of uncertain but unwholesome intent, the English Department at…

The last Medieval and Early Modern Seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, November 30th from 9-11 AM in Rome 771. Jehangir Malegam (GW History) will be presenting his paper entitled: No Peace for the Wicked: Conflicting Visions of Peacemaking in an Eleventh-Century Monastic Narrative As usual, please RSVP to me to receive…

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE The blog has been going through a lot of changes lately, but one part (or person) of it remains the same. Tess Malone, your trusty Communications Liaison Intern, is still here. I am eager to spend another semester interviewing your favorite professors and attending exciting events on campus and throughout DC. However,…

Professor Jeffrey Cohen writes to tell you about his fantastic Myths of Britain course next fall. There are still a few spots left, so make sure to sign up. You are guaranteed an amazing semester. This was the course that affirmed why I wanted to be an English major! The English Department recently gave my…

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…

When you talk to most professors in the English department they profess that reading became an obsessive hobby from an early age. However Ramola D could not stop at reading books, she had to write them too. “I couldn’t read for long without itching to put the book down and write my own stories and…