Well done, everyone!
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
You know that graduate school is getting to you when teaching a summer course is considered a “break.” While working on her dissertation on the dictator novel in Latin American and Franco- and Anglophone African literatures, GW alumna and current NYU graduate student Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, decided it would be good to slow down this summer…
Someone stole the electronic projector last night from our newly renovated seminar room. Value: $3500. Please let us know if you have any information or saw anything suspicious. This is very disheartening. Share on FacebookTweet
The faculty of the English Department extends its very best wishes to our undergraduate majors as they finish their term papers and prepare for final examinations. For those who are completing their stay at GW, we look forward to seeing you at the CCAS Celebration, at Commencement … and especially at our annual reception for…
(readers of the post below may recognize that this year we are seeking a replacement for Maxine Clair, who had the gall to retire on us last year. Maxine is, of course, irreplaceable … but we will hope for the best).Assistant Professor of Creative Writing For appointment beginning in the fall of 2009, we seek…
The English Department welcomes Ariel Sabar, author of the prize-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, for a reading Tuesday night, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. A Washingtonian, Sabar is a seasoned journalist. He covered the 2008 presidential campaigns for The Christian Science Monitor, and…
The following is taken from Tayari Jones’s recent essay “Symbolism and Cynicism,” published in The Believer: The irony is that those who would opt out of Black History Month share the goals of its founder. Although many black people grumble that it is not their responsibility to educate white people about our worth, most would…
