English major and creative writing minor Gowri Koneswaran (class of 1997) writes: I’ve been thinking about the folks in the English department a lot lately! For the past four years, I’ve been working down the street at The Humane Society of the United States. For some of my non-creative writing, check out this article I…
Department alumnus Keith Feldman writes: I’m pleased to report that I write you from my new office at UC Berkeley, where I’ve just begun a tenure track position in comparative ethnic studies. As you might imagine, I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—by the opportunity to work in such a generative atmosphere. I was hired in part because…
The faculty of the English Department of the George Washington University welcomes all of our students to campus and to class. Best wishes for a very successful year.
Annual Report for 2008-09 Submitted by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Director Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor and Chair of English Leah Chang, Assistant Professor of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Holly Dugan, Assistant Professor of English Gil Harris, Professor of English Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English Jehangir Y. Malegam, Assistant Professor of…
With the new semester comes a new readership for the GW English blog. You’ll find much useful information on this website, including: department news alumni updates faculty publications news for current students, especially English majors department–sponsored events our annual reports and other documents that we feel are best shared opportunities for you to help advance…
from Gil Harris, Director of Graduate Studies:This year’s English Graduate Student Orientation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 26, from 9:00 till 11:00 am in Rome 771. All new graduate students — including first-year BA/MA students, entering MA students, and entering PhD students — are expected to attend, but everyone else is welcome too, especially faculty…
The new semester is almost upon us: alarmingly (at least to me) GW classes begin BEFORE Labor Day this year. I am certain that some cosmic injunction has been broken, and am hard at work trying to stop it … but without much success so far. This summer we have been renovating Rome Hall 771,…
Please join us on Thursday September 17 at 4PM for our inaugural event of the 2009-10 year, a seminar entitled “Messianic Time and the Untimely” Three papers will be pre-circulated by email on September 1, and should be read in advance by all who plan to attend. On September 17, we will have short presentations…
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As announced previously, on Friday October 23 at 5 PM, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will deliver the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies. She will be introduced by Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature José Muñoz. GW President Steven Knapp will give the university welcome. Professor Garland-Thomson is a founder of Disability…
