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…
Priya Joshi will present “Rethinking the Theory of the Novel” March 6th at 3:30 pm in Rome 771 Priya Joshi Joshi asks: “What theory of the novel might emerge when it is based on anti-literary forms? How might attention to the anti-literary revise the history of the novel as it is presently conceived?” She uses…
Vaddey Ratner Reading February 12th 7:30 PM Honors Townhouse (714 21st St NW) Author of the New York Times bestselling novel In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner will be giving a reading at George Washington University TOMORROW! “Full of beauty, even joy. . . What is remarkable, and honorable, here is the absence of anger, and…
The English Graduate Student Association welcomes graduates and undergraduates to attend the 2013 EGSA Symposium “Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities” The Symposium will be held on February 15th in Rome 771 and will start at 9 am and end at 5:30 pm! Here’s a sneak peek at some of the panels!…
Louis Bayard will be giving a reading Thursday January 31st at 7:30pm in the Honors Town House (714 21st St NW). Bayard teaches Creative Writing here at the George Washington University and is the author of The School of Night, The Black Towers, The Pale Blue Eye, and other critically acclaimed novels. As a child, Professor…
Lisa Zeidner Lisa Zeidner, the critically acclaimed author of Layover and Love Bomb, will be visiting GW on January 24th! Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels as well as two books of poetry. She teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Zeidner is the first author in a series this spring at GW,…
The GW English Department presents Tony Kushner Live!, a series of programs culminating in Tony Kushner’s visit to the GW campus in April. Please join us, and encourage students, colleagues, and community members to attend these exciting events. Below you will find a full schedule of events. Dates and times will also be posted on the…
