Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz

Kwame Alexander’s And Then You KnowNew and Selected Poems at Gelman Library’s Special Collections Research CenterPoetry Reading and Reception On April 9 from 7 PM to 9 PM, the Special Collections Research Center of the Gelman Library invites the community to a poetry reading and reception celebrating the publication of Washington poet Kwame Alexander‘s And…

If you intend to attend the Touching the Past symposium (the inaugural event of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute) on Friday November 7, would you let us know that you plan to come? You can email Lowell Duckert (lduckert@gwu.edu) or me (jjcohen@gwu.edu). We’d like to ensure that our room is large enough…

In the discussion that unfolded at this post about the humanities at GW, Calder Stembel kindly linked to a letter he composed to The Hatchet about arts and politics at this institution. The letter in its entirety is worth your time, but I want to excerpt some parts that speaks to the crux of the…

From today’s Hatchet: Jewish literature lives by Ani MamourianHatchet Reporter For English professor Faye Moskowitz, putting students in contact with authors meant bridging the connection between reader and writer. Moskowitz teaches Jewish Literature Live, a new course that brings contemporary Jewish American authors to campus. Anya Ulinich will read from her novel “Petropolis” this Thursday,…

Here’s a suggestion. Here’s another. And another. And then you can have these books signed by MICHAEL CHABON himself on Monday, March 23 at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium. Chabon will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, will read from his work, and will be interviewed live by Faye Moskowitz. Book signing follows….

Drawing on an argument made by late New York poet Audre Lorde that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Prof. Greg Pardlo introduced friend and fellow poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to the ample-sized audience in the Marvin Center Amphitheater last Thursday evening. Pardlo continued: Although Ellis doesn’t directly employ the metaphor of…