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Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
Disability and Queer Sexuality in Russia
Professor Alexander Kondakov A late addition to our calendar! Next Thursday, Professor Alexander Kondakov of the European University at St. Petersburg will be a special guest in David Mitchell’s Literature of the Americas class. This event is open to the public. Thursday, November 17, 12:45-2 PM in Phillips Hall B156. Disability and Queer-Sexuality in…
Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan
Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 7:30PM in the Marvin center as the Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series features Kyle Dargan, who will read from his new collection of poetry, Honest Engine. Kyle Dargan is the Director of Creative Writing and an Associate Professor at…
Honors and English Students to Hold Public Symposium December 9
Still from Floating Skyscrapers (2013), Tomasz Wasilewski, dir. Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 9, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English 3980W) and “Intro to LGBT Studies”…
October 15: Jose Dalisay Reading
To say Jose Dalisay has had a productive career is an understatement. The Philippines-born writer has published over 20 works in fiction and nonfiction since 1983 and also has an extensive background as a dramatist, columnist and film writer. Born in the Philippine island province Romblon in 1954, Dalisay spent his formative years in Manila,…
Gail Paster to Deliver Inaugural Dean’s Lecture on Shakespeare
The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year. On Friday, September 7, at 3:30 PM, former GW English professor and Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Gail Kern Paster, will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Program, directed by Alexa Alice…