Reading Distance: Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…
Thursday, 23 February, 2017, 4-5:00 pm Phillips 411 An excellent opportunity for graduate students, this seminar will help you plan and execute job search strategies, present opportunities for job seekers with a graduate degree, and help emphasize and showcase desirable traits and skills for employers. JENNIFER LINHART WOOD (PhD in English, George Washington University)…
Sunil Yapa will read from his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Wednesday, February 8th, 7:30 PM Gelman 702 A novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a boyish, scrappy world traveler…
The GW English Graduate Student Association Symposium 2017: (re)collections: Tracing Power & Community in Cultural Memory Date: Friday, February 24, 2017 Location: 219 Gelman…
“Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.” The 2017 Digital Humanities Institute symposium, “Global…
Call for Papers: (re)collections: Tracing Power and Community in Cultural Memory English Graduate Student Association Symposium 2017 Date: Friday, February 24, 2017 Location: 219 Gelman Library (2130 H St NW, Washington, DC 20052) Keynote Speaker: Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) at George Washington University is excited to announce our 2017…
Professor Alexander Kondakov A late addition to our calendar! Next Thursday, Professor Alexander Kondakov of the European University at St. Petersburg will be a special guest in David Mitchell’s Literature of the Americas class. This event is open to the public. Thursday, November 17, 12:45-2 PM in Phillips Hall B156. Disability and Queer-Sexuality in…
The PEN/Faulkner at Hill Center Reading Series Presents: Melinda Moustakis Where: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, DC 20003 When: Wednesday November 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm Cost: Free Register here Hill Center and PEN/Faulkner Foundation present an evening with author Melinda Moustakis moderated by Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing at George Washington University….
Join the GWU English department on November 17th at 7:30 PM in Gelman 702, for Jung Yun’s fiction reading. The newest and most welcome addition to our creative writing faculty, Jung Yun is the author of SHELTER, published by Picador in 2016 and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, as well as…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: The Poetry Patrick Rosal Thursday, October 20th 7:30 PM Gelman Library Room 702 Join the GW English department for our latest edition of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Patrick Rosal, the author of 4 full-length poetry collections : Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016) Boneshepherds (2011) My American Kundiman (2006) Uprock…
