The Fat Studies Reader, a collection of essays to which GW English graduate student Julia McCrossin contributed a piece, was mentioned in a recent New Yorker article: So what’s wrong with putting on an extra pound, or ten pounds, or, for that matter, a hundred and ten? According to the contributors to “The Fat Studies…
Save the date! On Friday October 23 at 5 PM, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will deliver the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies. Professor Garland-Thomson is a founder of Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary approach to literature and culture that examines (among many other things) how the normal is created, and who is excluded…
Readers of this blog know my enthusiasm for the department that I chair. When I joined its faculty in 1994, I was struck by how collegial those who teach here are, and how deeply committed they are to their students. And as to the students themselves … what can I say, besides that they are…
From the latest By George! New GW Institute Brings Together Scholars in Medieval, Early Modern Studies Jeffrey J. Cohen, chair of GW’s English Department, leads the University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. By Julia Parmley Faculty across departments in GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences have been individually engaged in medieval and early…
Every year the English Department reports on its progress and achievements to the university. I thought readers of this blog might enjoy the glimpse it yields of the year that was. ————— CCAS Department Annual Report 2008-09ENGLISH IA Undergraduate studies * Majors, minors, double majorsMajors: 191 in English, 10 in English and Creative Writing; minors…
Every year we ask our graduating seniors what their post-GW future looks to be: the class of 2008 reported here, and 2007 here. Here are some of the replies we’ve received from the class of 2009. We are very proud of our majors, and wish them the best of luck no matter what the years…
From the University of Nebraska Press website: Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery—conflicts in…
This fall follow the progress of the students in Joe Fisher’s English 120 (Critical Methods) class via the innovative blog he has set up for the class. We’ll keep you posted on its progress
Check out Jane’s poem “Last Words”: Once the patient stops drinking liquids, he’s gotup to 14 days to live. If he takes even a sipof water, you reset the clock. Eleven days without a drop. The rabbimade his rounds. They stopped herIV and her oxygen. I asked themto please turn off the TV’s live feedto…
From the latest edition: Renowned Writers Share Their Craft Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones began his GW professorship in January with a public reading of his novel The Known World. Last fall, English professors compiled a wish list of sorts: If they could have any modern literary great join the faculty, who would it…
