Events

TONIGHT!

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…

Professors Daniel Saalfeld and Daniel DeWispelare  Uproarious Laughter Decked the Halls Smiles All Around, Ready to Ring in a New Year Katie and Eve, this semester’s fabulous Work-Study Students Professor DeWispelare with Department Operations Manager Constance Kibler Professors Patricia Chu, Evelyn Schreiber, and Ormond Seavey Graduate Students Theodora Danylevich and Elizabeth Pittman Professor Holly Dugan…

Inside the St. Vitius Cathedral near the Prague Castle Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall.  This was the fifth instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to students from the Czech Republic…

The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year.  On Friday, September 7, at 3:30 PM, former GW English professor and Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Gail Kern Paster, will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Program, directed by Alexa Alice…