We have washed and ironed our finery.
We look forward to meeting your families, celebrating your achievements, and wishing you well at commencement.
David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…
Prof. Patty Chu will be giving a lunchtime lecture titled “Narratives of Return: An Asian American Photographic Odyssey,” at the National Gallery of Art on Monday, May 17. The talk will be in the East (I.M. Pei) Wing, Small Auditorium, at 12:10 and again at 1:10. It runs 30 minutes, with time for Q&A. Here…
Matt Fullerty, a graduate of our doctoral program, writes that he has won an unpublished novel competition. All the details are at the Bookhabit website, which includes a review of the novel by Geoff Cush and a link to an interview. The novel is called THE PRIDE AND THE SORROW and was sent to UK…
Our sidebar has grown quite long, lengthened by the occasional poll, a request for feedback, and list of department supporters. Scrolling the entire length of our sidebar can be a daunting task, so let me call attention to a few promising sections in which you might be interested, and to which you will hopefully contribute….
Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and…
Congratulations to Tom Mallon for the excellent review of Yours Ever: People and their Letters in the New York Times Review of Books. An excerpt: It is next to impossible to read these pages without mourning the whole apparatus of distance, without experiencing a deep and plangent longing for the airmail envelope, the sweetest shade…
