December 10 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m): One thousand copies of The Known World will be given away for FREE in the Marvin Center January 29 (5 PM) Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading, introduced by GW President Steven Knapp (Jack Morton Auditorium, School of Media and Public Affairs) February 18 (6:30 PM) “Knowing The Known…
GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences will give away 1,000 copies of The Known World by Edward P. Jones. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington, D.C., resident, Mr. Jones is the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature. He will be in residence in the English Department during the entire spring semester of…
The South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival is this Saturday (November 15th), from 10 AM to 5 PM. This is one of my favorite events in Washington and I know it will be of interest to many English majors. In addition, Professor Supriya Goswami from GW’s English Department will be moderating one of the…
Coming this Thursday to Rome 771. All are welcome!
Come hear the inimitable Jane Shore discuss her latest book of poetry A Yes-or-No Answer (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) Faculty Authors Book Signing Reception October 30, 2008 10:00 am – 12:00 noon The Gelman Library Room 207 Click on the image to enlarge. All are welcome.
Looks like GW students can look forward to another great creative writing event! Click to Enlarge.
If you have not registered for this event yet, you are just plain out of your mind. Do I need to tell you how famous Tom Mallon is? How amazing Suhayl Saadi is? How renowned H. G. Carrillo is? How great Judith Plotz and Faye Moskowitz will be? If you are not attending this event…
Feed your mind and body. See the English Department in action. Meet famous novelists. Learn about the future of literature. Eat something sweet. Mingle with students, faculty, alumni. LITERATURE IN A GLOBAL AGE: PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Featuring the British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi “Literature in a Global Age” is about the past…
Please join us for the inaugural event of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI), a symposium on Touching the Past. The symposium begins at 1:30 in the fourth floor conference room of Phillips Hall (Academic Center, 801 22nd St NW) and lasts until 5. We feature two panels: Session One (moderated…
Click to Enlarge. Thanks to David McAleavey and John O’Keefe for creating these great posters! Please note that the date and location for the first Suhayl Saadi reading has been changed.
