Well done, everyone!
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Read coverage from The Hatchet about Prof. Jeffrey Cohen, winner of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-12 Share on FacebookTweet
We are honored to have Sarah Werner of the Folger Shakespeare Library teaching a seminar for us this coming spring. Though the seminar is offered at the graduate level, we are opening five spots in the class to undergraduate English majors who are interested in the subject and who would like to do some advanced…
Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…
As I write this, most courses for the Fall 2010 semester will already have met once. It’s hard to believe that summer is over and that the new school year has officially begun. But there is candy (see above) to sweeten the transition. The bowl in the photo–taken just minutes ago! it’s still full!–features various…
Each year I am asked by the university to compose a report on the goals and achievements of the English Department. I thought that readers of this blog might be interested to see the document I’ve sent to the dean. It’s been a good year! ———– English Departmental Annual Report (2007-08)Prepared by Jeffrey J. Cohen,…
Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the opportunity to host visiting students or scholars who come to DC to take advantage of the resources at GW and in the city at large. Naglaa Mahmoud, a visiting student from Al Minya…
