Vikram Chandra, formerly a professor of English in our department, will be reading from his latest work on Thursday April 5 at 8PM (Marvin Center, Third Floor Amphitheatre). Chandra is the author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He is also the author of…
The month long residency of South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko has come to an end. The Embassy of South Africa hosted a valedictory reception Tuesday evening at the residence of the ambassador, Her Excellence Barbara Masekela. Nokuthula returns to South Africa today. We wish her the best, especially as she looks forward to the birth…
The English Department was one of the primary sponsors for “Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies across the Curriculum,” held in the Marvin Center February 22-23, 2007. The event opened with a selection of disability film shorts from around the world hosted by prominent disability studies scholars and filmmakers David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder of the University…
Acclaimed British writer Courttia Newland will read from his work on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Funger Hall, Room 220 (2201 G St. NW). The reading is free and open to the public. Here is a brief biography of Newland from the British Council website: Courttia Newland was born in 1973 in…
Professor Gayle Wald will read from her new book Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe at local bookstore Politics and Prose today at 1 PM. Look for her as well at Busboys and Poets on Wednesday March 7 at 6:30.
GW’s Fourth Annual World Literature Residency is now underway, with Nokuthula Mazibuko of South Africa in residence at George Washington University for a month, thanks to collaboration between Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the South African Embassy. Writer and director of documentary films, including The Spirit of No Surrender, Lady Was a Mshoza…
The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is being held by South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko. The World Literature Residency brings writers from across the globe to GW to lecture, read from their works, and visit undergraduate classes. Writers typically remain…
The English Department is a proud co-sponsor of the conference Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, to be held at GW on Feb. 22 & 23. The keynote speaker is Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. The symposium begins with a film festival (free and open to the public). Among the GW faculty presenting will be Robert McRuer,…
