Well done, everyone!
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
English major Jessica Chace recently wrote to ask what folks in the English department were reading this summer, so we did a quick poll. Here are reports from far-flung students and faculty: Jessica Chace is finishing up The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. “The title is a bit of misnomer,” she writes, “–it’s actually…
Although you wouldn’t know it from the mild manner of those of us who inhabit Rome 760, the English Department has been quite busy lately. This is not Prof. Tongson at GW last week, although the set up was remarkably similar and the photo is in the commons! Last week, in addition to seeing the…
Renowned Scots-Asian writer Suhayl Saadi will be the second GW-British Council Writer in Residence. Born in Beverly, East Yorkshire, and raised in Glasgow, Saadi is best known as the author of the novel Psychoraag: Taking place during the six hours of a radio broadcast, PSYCHORAAG tells the mythic, yet utterly modern tale of Zaf, a…
Kevin Callahan It’s a pleasure to welcome two new student bloggers for English for spring 2012. Junior Kevin Callahan, an English major and journalism minor, is editor of the G.W. Review, one of GW’s two literary magazines. Since last fall, he has also been features editor of the GW Cherry Tree yearbook. In his free…
He is one of the most famous egomaniacs in literature. He is also one of the most famous disabled characters in literature. Who is he? Chances are Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab was not your first guess. Although the character’s missing leg is one of his most defining features, the crazed captain of the Pequod is…
[fig 1: The IMDb doesn’t know what Dante looks like]by J J Cohen So John Filardi, an alumnus of the GW English Department, is here teaching a course on screenwriting, focused upon comedy. By all accounts it has been a terrific class. Today he invited Emmanuella Chiriqui (Sloan from Entourage) to his class. When I…
