E.L. Doctorow reading at Funger Hall last week. E.L. Doctorow’s campus visit and reading last week were a high point of the spring semester for the English Department. Doctorow visited Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the morning, talking to students about his novel The Book of Daniel, and then gave a public…
E.L. Doctorow will visit with students and then give a public reading Thursday. On April 7, the English Department will be hosting a reading by acclaimed writer E.L. Doctorow. The author of eleven novels, Doctorow has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the…
Mark DeCicco won the award for best graduate paper at the recent meeting of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (check out the guest speaker). His prize: publication in the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, a scholarly journal with a substantial readership. Lowell Duckert was selected for Honorable Mention in…
Poet Claudia Rankine included a poem by GW student Marissa Ciampi on her website. Recently Prof. Gregory Pardlo posted a piece here about the Theft of Flat Langston at the DC restaurant/literary spot Busboys and Poets. Now he reports in about a GWU student’s contribution to a major discussion in the poetry world. The discussion…
to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to Prof. Thomas Mallon, winner of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $10,000 award is for a writer “whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose…
A packed crowd listens to Jane Bennett’s keynote address at the recent GW MEMSI conference. GW MEMSI hosted an extraordinary conference March 11-12. “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in Early Modern and Medieval Periods” drew an amazing array of speakers to campus for lively discussion. Here is a wrap-up of the event by English…
Allegra Goodman Novelist Allegra Goodman will be reading at the Marvin Center Amptitheater at 7 p.m. on Thursday as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course. The class explores the works of a variety of contemporary Jewish-American authors and features them in class visits and public readings. Heralded as a “modern-day Jane…
We’re not quite there yet. But it is Spring Break. Here’s what students and professors are doing over the break: Prof. Tara Wallace will be flying to Vancouver to present a paper at the annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Prof. Christopher Sten will be traveling to Minnesota to see family, and…
Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…
Last Wednesday, I had the fortune of seeing GW English professors Michelle Brafman, Mary Tabor and Lisa Page, in a reading that displayed an amazing array of talent. The three writers, also fiction and creative writing professors in the GW Creative Writing department, were part of a series of readings entitled “Jenny 2,” in conjunction…
