The Department of English is very happy to announce one of our first events for the Fall 2013 Semester. On September 12, 2013, from 4-6 PM, please join us in Marvin Center 301 for “No Longer Secret: Willa Cather’s Letters. A Conversation with Andrew Jewell and Marilee Lindemann.” This event will be moderated by our…
Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 More than 150 scholars and students from a dozen countries assembled last month on the George Washington University campus for the Melville Society’s Ninth International Conference, focusing on the Civil War poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, two giants of…
All three of these Spring 2013 PEN/Faulkner events have a connection to GW English. Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a 2003 GW English PhD, Lisa Page teaches in our Creative Writing Program, and PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee Thomas Mallon is Director of Creative Writing. Although the reading with Dolen Perkins-Valdez has passed, come out this Saturday to…
Update: We regret to announce that this event is postponed — stay tuned for further details. Aldon Lynn Nielson will be hosting a discussion: “The Cry of my People:” Jazz, Poetry and the Black Arts on Friday, April 19 2-4 PM in Rome Hall 771 http://artonair.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/bodyview_enlarged/show/9063/node-image.jpg An alum from our very own English department, Aldon Nielsen…
This Thursday: Room 602, 1957 E Street NW, Elliott School for International Affairs Examining Violence against Women in India: Changes, Challenges, Futures 11 AM-1 PM The panel’s conversation will explore the many complexities of the situation of violence against women in India, and also allow for a discussion of it in a comparative frame, linking…
Michael Palmer Reading http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/creative-writing-reading-series-with-michael-palmer Thursday, April 4th, 2013 7:30 pm Honors Town House (714 21st St NW) http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2010/05/may- 2011-highlights.html Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco for over forty years. He has published over twenty books of poetry, and has often collaborated with visual artists, choreographers, and composers such as Gerhard Richter and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. His…
Tony Kushner will be arriving in 20 DAYS! http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Tony+Kushner/tony-kushner-2013-writers-guild-awards-press-room-01.html Tony Kushner is coming to visit GW through the Jewish Literature Live Program thanks to a generous grant from David Bruce Smith. In conjunction with Kushner’s visit we have and will be running the ACTING UP film series and a series of Play Workshops focusing on…
Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After History • Politics • Nation • Memory The Ninth International Melville Conference Washington , DC • June 4-7, 2013 8:30 a.m., June 4, to 1 p.m., June 7 Featured Keynote Speakers Ken Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Ed Folsom (Universityof Iowa), Elizabeth Renker (Ohio State University), and…
Don’t miss a reading with award-winning writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis Marvin Center Amphitheater 7:30pm Tuesday March 19th http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a68a2684-f1fe-11e1-bba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Np6oFdJg Bezmozgis is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Free World and Natasha and Other Stories, and is visiting GW as a guest of the Jewish Literature Live program. Natasha and Other Stories won the Toronto…
