British Council website for Nadeem Aslam residency

The following ten students will form the inaugural class of English 702. 10 “Studies in Contemporary Literature” (CRN 97032): Rajiv Menon Lauren Kriz Chris Pugh Jessica Wilde Rachael Baird Nai Lee Kalema Elise Kigner Reed Cooley Lisa Francavilla Taylor Brown This one credit reading course will meet on the four Tuesdays in February in Rome…

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Last weekend I was thrilled to have an all-access pass to the 2011 AWP Conference (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) here in DC. With a badge and notebook in hand for coverage, I trekked over to the Wardman Park Hotel on a beautiful afternoon with no idea what to expect. Little did I know…

This feature is the beginning of a story entitled “Baby Danny” by Drew Welke, a student in Ginnie Hartman’s Intermediate Fiction 103 class. Usually, two people would have to stay in the shop late to close up, but today, Jack had been left alone. Everyone else was helping unload tents, tables, and chairs at a…

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…