Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…
Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page Thursday, January 21st, 2016 at 7 p.m. Free tickets here Kseniya Melnik, the 2015-2016 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at GWU, is the author of the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed…
January Edition of the Lowercase Reading Series: Tara Campbell, Koye Oyedeji, and Colin Dwyer I recently had the pleasure of attending the lowercase at Petworth Citizen, a monthly reading series hosted on the first Wednesday of every month by 826dc. The nonprofit was represented by Christina Mueller, a GWU English Major Alum, and Gus Caravalho,…
Transnational Queer Film Studies students and Professor Karen Tongson of USC in Prague Photo by Robert McRuer Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall. This was the seventh instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to…
Margaret Soltan was interviewed recently by Radio Poland, which asked her about her memories of Wojciech Fangor, Poland’s most important modern painter. You can access that interview via this link. Professor Soltan spoke with the New York Times confirming Fangor’s death; the obituary from October 25 can be accessed here. Soltan will also be giving…
Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 7:30PM in the Marvin center as the Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series features Kyle Dargan, who will read from his new collection of poetry, Honest Engine. Kyle Dargan is the Director of Creative Writing and an Associate Professor at…
The GWU English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series invite you to a reading by Scott Simon. NPR’s Scott Simon The event will be held: Thursday, October 29th 7:30 PM Gelman Library Room 702 Scott Simon is known as a broadcast journalist. He is, after all, the award-winning host of NPR’s Weekend Edition…
On October 2, GW English hosted “American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies: The Work of Ann Romines. Full details of the event can be read here. Below are some photos from the successful event. Thanks to all who attended! Professor Ann Romines (pictured here with GW English PhD Charmion Gustke) retired this year after…
Join us today to celebrate the work of Ann Romines: American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies 2-2:30: Phillips Phillips B-120 3-4:30 PM: Myers Room, GW’s Textile Museum Full information on today’s events can be found here. As an added bonus, Professor Romines’s collection of 19th Century American quilts are on display in the Textile Museum, along…
(Thomas Mallon on tour last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo credit: Robert Birnbaum) Thomas Mallon, acclaimed novelist and former Director of Creative Writing at GWU, has just published his ninth novel, Finale, to wide critical acclaim. His account of the Reagan administration “blends his singular knowledge of political history with his limitless imagination to capture…
