Creative Writing Courses with Jason Filardi and Edward P. Jones
The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome Hall 760.
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Spring Break
The English Department wishes all of it majors a restful, enjoyable spring break. We hope that if you’ve taken off for Cancun or Fort Lauderdale, you’ve at least brought your Riverside Shakespeare along with you. Share on FacebookTweet
Professor Gil Harris Wins NEH Fellowship
Jonathan Gil Harris, a popular professor of the early modern period, has been awarded a one year NEH fellowship to work at the Folger Shakespeare Library. From the Folger website, a description of his project: Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor of English, George Washington University“Shakespeare and Literary Theory” “Shakespeare and Literary Theory” will consider the…
Cuba in the World: This Thursday and Friday in the Marvin Center
Please join us for a two-day event on Cuba and its diaspora sponsored by the English Department with the assistance of American Studies and Africana Studies, under the auspices of the Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English. Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance A Public Reading and Symposium October 8 and 9, 2009Marvin CenterGeorge…
Suhayl Saadi on “Literature in a Global Age”
The month long GW-British Council residency of novelist, playwright and polymath Suhayl Saadi has come to its end. Dominick Chilcott, the British Deputy Head of Mission, invited some members of the English department, Dean Peg Barratt, and prominent members of the DC diplomatic and arts communities to his home last night to celebrate a second…
GW MEMSI Annual Report for 2009-10
Annual Report for 2008-09 Submitted by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Director Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor and Chair of English Leah Chang, Assistant Professor of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Holly Dugan, Assistant Professor of English Gil Harris, Professor of English Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English Jehangir Y. Malegam, Assistant Professor of…
“Sister Rosetta’s Stone”
Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…