Join us for an information session on this exciting GW English Summer Study Abroad course! Read more about the course here. Summer Study Abroad: Shakespeare in the Mediterranean, May 18-June 4. Professors: Suzanne Miller, History; Katherine Keller, English Application Deadline: March 2, 2015 Information Session: Tuesday, February 17, 5:30-6:30pm, Marvin Center 506
“For lessons in literature,” GW Today reminds readers, “George Washington University students do not have to rely on just books—they can meet authors in person through the English Department’s campus lecture series and public readings this semester. Several writers will come to campus through the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series, led by Lisa Page, acting…
Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience. Venetian Canals Dubrovnik from the hills This is your opportunity to travel in his stead. Make the voyage to Venice and read Othello and the Merchant of Venice along its canals; journey to Verona and read about…
Michel de Montaigne GW Students! Professor Ormond Seavey’s courses for spring afford some great opportunities for exposing yourself to a wide range of literature, from its early American beginnings to the classic Education of Henry Adams, published in 1907. English 3490 Early American Literature and Culture CRN: 43931, Tue/Thur 3:45-5 PM Beginning with a Shakespeare…
Hogarth, Beggar’s Opera GW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015. This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement. The Eighteenth Century: The Theatre of Politics, Sex, and Sentiment Professor Tara G. Wallace CRN: 47695 Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:50 AM In 1660, after two decades of Puritan rule, England regained its monarchy and its theatres, and…
GW Students: Another great course for Spring 2015! Study Toni Morrison and William Faulkner with Professor Evelyn Schreiber (president of the Toni Morrison Society). English 3820W.10, CRN 42671, “William Faulkner and Toni Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics” Major Authors: Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: “Race, Memory, and Aesthetics” : This course links authors Toni Morrison and…
GW Students! We’ll be featuring a few of our Spring 2015 courses here over the next week. Consider signing up for English 3570: The Cultural Memory of Slavery in Literature and Film, taught by Professor Jennifer James. The CRN is 48139, TR 2:20-3:35. The upcoming two hundred-year anniversary of the end of the Civil War…
An exciting opportunity for interested students! This fall, GW English will continue our partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, specifically its “Writers in Schools” program. Writers in Schools has been running in DC for more than 20 yeas. It pairs writers with English (high school) classrooms, providing support to teachers and students and facilitating visits by writers to schools. Teachers,…
The GW English Department is Accepting Applications for the BA/MA Program An MA in English is a wonderful degree which affords graduates numerous opportunities. Our students have gone on to very promising careers in editing, law, marketing, and technology, just to name a few. http://chronolect.com/archives/830 Students who wish to pursue their MA in English have an…
