Poem of the Day: e. e. cummings’s “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”

Poem of the Day: e. e. cummings’s “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look will easily unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always…

Guest Post: Holly Dugan Reflects on Spring and National Poetry Month

Guest Post: Holly Dugan Reflects on Spring and National Poetry Month

Spring Smells of Lilacs  Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer’s famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales emphasize…

A Chat with the Author: Professor Marshall Alcorn

A Chat with the Author: Professor Marshall Alcorn

Professor Marshall Alcorn’s book Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching was published in September of this year by Palgrave Macmillan. Resistance to Learning has already received high praise and is the latest in Professor Alcorn’s works that focus on education. As our semester was winding down, GW English Communications Liaison Samantha Yakas asked him…

Professor Antonio López on the Culture and Politics of Race in Cuba

Professor Antonio López on the Culture and Politics of Race in Cuba

Professor Antonio López appears in the latest edition of “The Chronicle Review” for The Chronicle of Higher Education, reflecting on a number of recent scholarly publications on Cuba and race, focused especially on the situation of Afro-Cubans.  Readers of this blog are already well-acquainted with Professor López’s work in the field, as his own eagerly-awaited…

British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster News

British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster News

Here is some news from our British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster, where some faculty have been publishing new research and forging exciting institutional connections in the US, UK, India and Ireland. Jenny Green-Lewis is glad to say that her essay on Victorian photography and the novel, written for the new Oxford Handbook of the Victorian…