Join the GW community on Thursday, April 15th from 12pm-2pm EST for the “Migration, Gender, and Rights in Comics and Literature: Linking the World” symposium! Hosted by GW’s Department of English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program, this symposium will explore how contemporary graphic narratives and fiction about South Asia, Syria, and the Caribbean…
Kali Fajardo Anstine is the author of the short story collection, Sabrina and Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, The American Scholar, Boston Review, the Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. Please join us for a virtual reading and Q&A on April…
Manuel Muñoz Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature March 31 at 7 PM for a reading with Manuel Muñoz. This is the second in a series of “live” public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite here and you will receive Zoom links both the day…
🌩️ Submit your T-shirt logo designs for a chance to win $100! Next semester, the GW English Department is hosting Thunder & Lightning, an event for Creative Writing AND English students/alumni to share their writing amongst fellow writers. All forms are accepted, whether they be short fiction, poetry, essays — if you wrote it, we want to hear…
Please join us virtually this Friday, March 5th, 2021 for the annual symposium hosted by the English Graduate Student Association! Our theme this year is Decay and Regeneration and features a full day of events including panels, a featured speaker, a keynote by Anna Mollow, and a virtual happy hour and performance. The full schedule…
Our next Jenny McKean Moore reading is Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm. It will be a special evening, featuring the daughter of Jenny McKean Moore, Honor Moore, reading, from her memoir, about her mother. Virginia Hartman will be introducing and moderating the evening. Join Our Event: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/97827956788?pwd=Vis1a3lwREl0a0dEWFNYb28wTExMdz09 Meeting ID: 978 2795 6788 Passcode:…
We are happy to announce that the Composing Disability conference that was postponed last year will be returning virtually on Friday, April 9th, 2021. Please join us in celebrating the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. This six-volume collection focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century,…
Join students in Contemporary LGBT Writing on March 10 at 7 PM for a roundtable discussion with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, producers of the documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012). United in Anger tells the story of the early days of AIDS activism, from the perspective of those most…
Clockwise from Upper Left to Right: Sarah Schulman; Manuel Muñoz; Jordy Rosenberg; K. Tyler Christensen This spring, students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3840W, “Contemporary LGBT Writing,” will have four “live” visits from some of the authors they are reading, and after a class visit, the authors themselves will be virtually on campus for…
Join us for a conversation about the representation of BIPOC in Shakespeare’s work and productions. Saturday, September 26th, 2020 from 3:00pm – 4:30pm Eastern Time (2 – 3:30 pm Central Time) The free event is hosted by the Dallas Public Library and features three speakers: GWU English professor Alexa Alice Joubin (whose book Race examines…
