Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz

[x-posted from In the Middle] The saddest piece of our job as professors involves the number of farewells that teaching requires. Just when you’ve grown fond of a student, just when you think This person has really grown intellectually, is astoundingly smart, is becoming someone wonderful — this is a person I could converse with…

The short stretch between June and August is one of the few times I have a chance to read some non-work related fiction. This summer I found two novels that I would highly recommend you add to your own list. 1. Paul Auster, The Book of IllusionsThe best way I can describe this book is…

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg describes her first novel Bee Season as a “personal” novel, but do not mistake personal for autobiographical. The tale of young Eliza Naumann, a spelling prodigy and potential mystic, is not Goldberg’s own. “My first spelling bee was in fourth grade. I lost on the word ‘tomorrow,’” she said when…

Here is the official press release. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY NAMES JOSE MUNOZ AS WANG VISITING PROFESSOR IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE Munoz to Teach and Deliver Public Readings in Fall 2009 WASHINGTON – The George Washington University has named renowned scholar of literature, Latino studies, and performance theory Jose Munoz as the second Wang Visiting…

We hope you have enjoyed the Get to Know Your TA feature. This will be our third and final post in the series. It was a lot of fun getting to know these three TAs and we hope now that you have read the posts, you will feel free to stop by their offices for…

(and he will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, no less. Details to follow here) Share on FacebookTweet