The Department of English, in association with ALCO, the American Literature and Culture Organization, is pleased to announce another great upcoming event. On Monday, October 22, from 1-3 PM, we will be hosting Michael Kimmage, who will be talking about his latest work. Michael Kimmage is Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of…
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/images/childlit.gif ALCO is the “American Literature and Culture Organization,” a group in which graduate students and faculty participate in discussions about language and culture from an Americanist perspective attentive to national, transnational, and hemispheric questions. The goal of ALCO is to open discussions across the various areas of study in GW’s English Department, as well…
Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities In his book Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty suggests that “[w]e need to consider why we find anachronism productive.” And in this symposium on slippages and slidings of time, place, space, and identity, we hope to explore just that. Despite our discipline’s best efforts to encode…
Congratulations to MEMS PhD student Haylie Swenson for winning the Michael Camille Essay Prize! The prize was established this year and sponsored by postmedieval: A journal of medieval cultural studies, Palgrave Macmillan, and the BABEL working group. Her essay, “Lions and Latour Litanies in The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt,” took first place out of twenty…
Our very own Dr. Matt Fullerty (English Ph.D. 2008) has begun a new tenure-track position at Chowan University in North Carolina teaching Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) and Composition. In spring 2013 he will teach English and American literature as well as an upper-level fiction class. GW students do not fear; Dr. Fullerty continues to teach at GW…
Most readers of this blog know that the GW English Department has been off to a great start this semester, with a range of successful events. If you follow us on Facebook (and if you don’t, you should!–check out how easy it is with the button on the right side of this page), you also…
The English Department is proud to announce that two of our students, Julie Dreyfuss and Jimi Patalano, have received Luther Rice Undergraduate Fellowships for the 2012-2013 school year. The Luther Rice Collaborative Fellowship grants $5,000 to each student to conduct undergraduate research in a special area of interest under the guidance of a faculty member…
The English Department is happy to announce that English Major Samantha Yakas has joined us as the new Communications Liaison for the 2012-2013 school year. The Communications Liaison helps us with all of our social media, including this blog (watch for Samantha’s posts), our Facebook page, and Twitter. Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/English-Dept-GWU/31472949461Follow us on Twitter…
Photo by Assaf Evron From September 28-October 4, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor J. Jack Halberstam as this year’s Wang Distinguised Professor-in-Residence. Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books, including In a Queer…
English 3960-10 (36721) Asian American Literature MW 12:45-2 p.m. Course Description: This course complicates received ideas of “America” as a nation of blacks and whites by examining the writing of Americans of Asian descent. Our readings will examine what Asian American and Asian global writers have to say about growing up in Chinatown in…
