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Trey Ellis at GW: Friday, March 27
Trey Ellis The GW English Department is pleased to welcome Trey Ellis as part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. Ellis, currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of several novels, Platitudes, Home Repairs, Bedtime Stories:…
Don’t Miss the National Book Festival Tomorrow!
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Hosts George Pelecanos
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
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…
The 2016 EGSA Student Symposium: Border Crossings
Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings! Friday, February 12th from 9 AM- 6:30 PM Gelman 219 This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…
Professor Tony López Presents for Latino Heritage September 18
Tomorrow evening, in honor of Latino Heritage Celebration, a Latina based sorority on campus is hosting an event called Virgin Maria vs. Maria Maria. The event is at 6:30pm in the MSSC (2127 G Street NW). The purpose of the event is to put forward a discussion about the highly contrasting and problematic ways that Latinas are portrayed…
