Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz

The drab room you see to the left is our department lounge, named for the distinguished GW Professor Emeritus of English John Reesing, Jr. The lounge is small and cramped, a graveyard for the empty water jugs from our water cooler, and not all that inviting, despite the recent addition of a new microwave and…

Our gratitude to those who generously supported us last month: Ms. Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) Mr. Lawrence M. Dennee (parent) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (1987) Prof. Christopher Sten (faculty) Ms. Jennifer Lyman Wagner (1990) All contributions directly support our department’s mission. You can donate online here. Please make sure that you designate your gift to…

Congratulations to Tom Mallon for the excellent review of Yours Ever: People and their Letters in the New York Times Review of Books. An excerpt: It is next to impossible to read these pages without mourning the whole apparatus of distance, without experiencing a deep and plangent longing for the airmail envelope, the sweetest shade…

From a superb review of Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare in the TLS: Share on FacebookTweet

The trompe-l’oeil cover of Tom Mallon’s new novel. GW Today published a lovely piece about Thomas Mallon’s new novel Watergate, which also recently got a stellar review in Washingtonian. And more enthusiastic press is sure to follow. Watch this space! Share on FacebookTweet

We know that at this time of year many of our readers consider which organizations to support through their philanthropy. We hope that you will consider making an end of the year gift to the GW English Department … and we would like to think that the liveliness of this blog has made evident to…