Events

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.

Hey everybody, before I fill everyone in on all the great events going on this week, I want to welcome Kirk Larsen to the GW English blog! As an avid reader of The Colonialist, I know Kirk has a lot to bring to the blog. The biggest off-campus event this week is the National Book…

Sandra Bernhard, star of stage, screen and television, is now appearing in her acclaimed “Without You, I’m Nothing” at Theatre J. She will be visiting Faye Moskowitz’s class at 1:30 on Thursday, September 18. At 2:00 she’ll do a Meet and Greet for faculty and students in Rome Hall 771 (English Department seminar room).

The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Diaz, is reading from his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this Wednesday (September 10th) at Politics and Prose at 7 PM (though it’s advisable to be early). This is a great opportunity to meet one of the most celebrated young authors in the…