Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz

 Nao Bustamante Artist Lecturer Thursday December 10, 2009  4pm English Department Seminar Room Rome Hall 771 Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance, video and installation artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California.  Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in galleries, museums, universities and underground…

We asked GW graduate Rati Bishnoi to let us know what she has been doing since finishing her degree. She writes: Presently I work as a defense reporter here in DC. After graduating in 2003, I set out to pursue a job in journalism and publishing. Before landing at the independent publication “Inside the Pentagon”…

There are certain things that seem to only occur in literature: personification, metaphor, allusion. However reoccurring themes can appear in real life too as Professor James Miller knows well. This is particularly true in relation to his latest book Moments of Scottsboro: The Scottsboro Case and American Culture. The project started in the late 1990s…

Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy We remain very excited about our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel DeWispelare, who is currently teaching Romanticism and Critical Methodologies.  For Spring 2013, he has designed a brand new Dean’s Seminar, “Literacy and Literature.”  Spread the word to those who are eligible–first-year CCAS students seeking a…

The Chair of the English Department resigned today to accept a job as provost of a newly formed online degree granting entity called Knowlidge U. “I will miss my colleagues, but not the ones who take too much chocolate from our department candy bowl, or the ones who make me look bad because they are…

From a student-run blog that I enjoy reading: The University announced today that GW will be receiving a 10 million dollar donation by the Smith family and the Kogod family to renovate the Smith Center. This is the largest donation ever made to the University. And it’s for basketball. While I have nothing against basketball,…