RSVP Today: Simon Gikandi’s Oct. 30 Undergraduate Seminar
For the first time since the creation of the English Department’s mini-residency, the Wang Distinguished Professor will give a seminar just for undergraduates! Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor This year’s Wang Distinguished Professor, Simon Gikandi will be leading this special event on October 30 at 2:15 PM in Rome Hall 771. A specialist in the…
October 15: Jose Dalisay Reading
To say Jose Dalisay has had a productive career is an understatement. The Philippines-born writer has published over 20 works in fiction and nonfiction since 1983 and also has an extensive background as a dramatist, columnist and film writer. Born in the Philippine island province Romblon in 1954, Dalisay spent his formative years in Manila,…
Open Space Recap Part II: The Pictures!
Student organizers Tess Gann and Sara Policastro welcome the crowd to Open Space. Jenny McKean Moore Writer Brando Skyhorse talking to student poets. It was standing-room only in the hallway outside the living rooms.
Opening Night of Open Space
The idea for Open Space came up after a department meeting earlier this semester when Professor David McAleavey noted that undergraduate poets had no public venue on GW to share their poems. Recent public poetry projects for National Poetry Month like “Rent-a-Poet” and the “Poem of the Day” series, which was organized by Professors Thea…
Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Susan Nussbaum at GW October 6
PEN/Bellweather Prize Winner Susan Nussbaum Our first event in the Private Bodies/Public Encounters series will occur on Monday, October 6 from 7-9 PM in 309 Marvin Center. The event features novelist and playwright, Susan Nussbaum, from Chicago. Susan’s novel, “Good Kings Bad Kings”, details the lives and struggles of a multi-racial group of disabled youth institutionalized at the…
Stay in the GW English Loop: October Events
September was a whirlwind of a month, complete with starting new classes and welcoming new members to the GW English community. The English department hosted and participated in a number of exciting events in September, including Brando Skyhorse’s first reading, Amy Bloom’s reading and the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual lecture. It was great seeing…
Simon Gikandi in Residence with GW English as Wang Distinguished Professor
Professor Simon Gikandi Simon Gikandi’s 2011 Slavery and the Culture of Taste From October 26-31, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Simon Gikandi as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). He is…