Connie Kibler, without whom the day to day running of the English Department would be impossible, celebrates thirty five years of service to GW today. She was presented with a plaque at a special luncheon (to which she was accompanied by a VERY handsome date).
Congratulations, Connie!
The English Department is thrilled to announce that Sarah Kuczynski, GWU class of 2012, will be blogging for us beginning in fall 2010. Sarah is an English/CW major from New Orleans. Last week, Sarah read a poem about her hometown at an open mike event at Busboys and Poets, one of our favorite hangouts, and…
English 40W: Myths of Britain Spring Semester 2009Jeffrey J. Cohen Much great English literature turns out not to be so English after all: the action of the epic Beowulf unfolds in Scandinavia; King Arthur was a Welsh king before he was an English one; Shakespeare’s Tempest takes place on an island in the Mediterranean, but…
We asked the class of 2007 to let us know what career paths they were following upon graduating from our program. Their responses illustrate well the flexibility a major in English gives when choosing a profession. We wish each one of our alumni good luck on their diverse endeavors. I will be reading screenplays and…
We will be offering a one credit, four evening course with our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi. You will have the chance to read three of his favorite novels and discuss them with him: Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker; How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman; and This Other…
Are you hankering for some intellectual stimulation in between Sara Ahmed‘s fabulous GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies and TemFest II on December 3? Eager for some literary light now that the days are shorter and the sunshine less abundant? Two events this week should prove just the thing for the mid-November…
The parade of Pulitzers passing through the Jack Morton Auditorium has been great: Edward P. Jones at his inaugural reading, Michael Chabon, Art Spiegelman. We love that 300 people could fill the seats of that vast space and attend these talks. That these were standing room only made us all the more pleased that we…
