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Edward P. Jones Reading Response
After Chair of the English Department Jeffrey J. Cohen introduced GWU President Steven Knapp who introduced author Edward P. Jones, Jones read two selections from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World: From Chapter 5, the story of Sherif John Skiffington attempting to quell the fears of his sister-in-law Clara Martin. This roughly corresponds…
WoW Talk on Trans Studies and Why It Matters
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin is giving a WoW Talk today on Trans Studies and Why It Matters. Here is the Zoom link. All are welcome! The WoW Talks at George Washington University are 10-minute TED style presentations that offer snapshots of faculty’s latest research. In her talk, Professor Joubin…
Aaron Hamburger Leads DC Reads Discussion November 5
This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM. The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…
Nokuthula Mazibuko
The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is being held by South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko. The World Literature Residency brings writers from across the globe to GW to lecture, read from their works, and visit undergraduate classes. Writers typically remain…
See Dara Horn on Thursday!
Author Dara Horn will be visiting GWU this Thursday! She will stop by Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the afternoon. In the evening she will be holding FREE reading at 7pm in the Marvin Center 3rd Floor Amphitheater. Come to hear the talented and charismatic author of The World to Come and All…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Sally Wen Mao
The 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Moore recipient, Sally Wen Mao, will be reading from her latest book, Mad Honey Symposium, on September 14th in Gelman Library (Room 702) at 7:30 pm. National Book Award Winner Terrance Hayes says of Mao’s debut: “The luminous image of a mouth ‘digesting light’ and later spitting ‘the light out because it…