The Faculty Present for Your Viewing Pleasure: These Fine Mornings

This Thursday, November 29th, at 7:30 in Rome 771 your favorite English faculty members will be performing Joelle Biele’s one-act play These Fine Mornings! These Fine Mornings was adapted from Biele’s book Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Biele explained that These Fine Mornings was created “pretty organically… I thought my friends and I would just read some…

Professor Antonio López’s New Book: Unbecoming Blackness

Associate Professor Antonio López’s first book, Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America, has just been released by New York University Press.  Professor Ricardo Ortiz of Georgetown University, author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, says of the book, “Unbecoming Blackness promises to make a transformative impact on Cuban American Literary Studies; it will certainly…

Professor DeWispelare’s New Dean’s Seminar for Spring 2013

Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy We remain very excited about our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel DeWispelare, who is currently teaching Romanticism and Critical Methodologies.  For Spring 2013, he has designed a brand new Dean’s Seminar, “Literacy and Literature.”  Spread the word to those who are eligible–first-year CCAS students seeking a…

The Culture of the Spectator: November 12

Dennis Kennedy, a distinguished scholar working on performance and cultural studies will be visiting GW. On Monday, November 12, from 1-2 pm, in Rome Hall 771, Dr. Kennedy will be presenting an illustrated lecture on “The Culture of the Spectator.” Currently Beckett Professor of Drama Emeritus in Trinity College Dublin, Kennedy will consider examples from sports,…

Jessica Chace’s Work as 2012-2013 George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellow

English Major Jessica Chace received a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Like GW’s Luther Rice fellowships, the Gamow Fellowship supports an undergraduate researcher in ways that allow her or him to work closely with a Faculty Mentor.  The working title of Jessica’s research project is “The Humor Defense: Laughter as Therapy in Ken…

Professor Mallon Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Thomas Mallon with Daniel Day-Lewis On Saturday, October 7, Professor Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Professor Mallon is the author of eight novels, including Watergate: A Novel. last weekend. He is the third member of George Washington University’s Faculty, and…