David Baldacci Book Launch

Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library.  Here’s the…

Dr Judith Buchanan   4:00-4:50 pm, October 25, Phillips 629 Judith Buchanan In this illustrated talk Judith Buchanan, co-writer of and Shakespeare advisor to the forthcoming GSP Studios film Macbeth, gives an insider perspective on the film. Judith Buchanan is Professor of Film and Literature and Dean of the Arts and Humanities at the University…

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…

Please join EGSA this Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Phil 629 for a candid discussion hour. Whether you are a Masters or Doctoral student, one of the central components of our work is producing a scholarly contribution in the form of a portfolio or dissertation. As we all know, this is never an easy…

Writer Amy Bloom is know for the complexity of her work.  Her characters are complicated and full of surprises.  Bloom got an early start in her craft. As a child growing up in New York, she remembers composing poems that she described in an interview with the fiction and poetry website Phoughshares as“Derivative, I fear—influenced…

Reading Distance:  Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…