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Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability is Back!
We are happy to announce that the Composing Disability conference that was postponed last year will be returning virtually on Friday, April 9th, 2021. Please join us in celebrating the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. This six-volume collection focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century,…
Cuba in the World: A Public Reading and Symposium
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, 2009 Marvin…
Tammy Greenwood-Stewart
We are privileged again this year to have the novelist Tammy Greenwood-Stewart teaching creative writing to our undergraduates. The author of gorgeous works like Breathing Water and Undressing the Moon, Tammy has just been awarded a contract by Kensington Press for her next two novels. Readers can discover more about her work at this website….
Forecast for the Fall Semester: TemFest Celebrates The Tempest, Dec. 3
The syllabi are in, and there’s definitely something stormy and Shakespearean coming our way! That’s right, it is not in error that William Shakespeare’s The Tempest appears on the syllabus of so many classes this semester. On the contrary, it’s a conscious, calculated effort on the part of Profs. Jeffrey Cohen and Jennifer James to…
New seminar: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The English Department is happy to announce that a new university seminar we proposed has been funded. The Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (MEMS) proposal is one fruit of an effort the department is making to foster the study of early Britain within a transnational frame in our department. With resources like the Folger Shakespeare…
A Special Event for Alumni on Feb. 18
While we are all looking forward to the Edward P Jones Inaugural Reading this Thursday at 5 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium, alumni of GW will want to add another event to their calendar. You must register in advance, and may do so by following the link at the bottom of this post. Knowing…
