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Jane Austen Seminar at the Smithsonian
Zabrina McIntyre of the Smithsonian Associates would like everyone to know about a special program featuring professor Tara Wallace: Jane Austen: The Author, Her Legacy and…Sea Monsters? This program will be on Tuesday, March 9 from 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm. It will feature three authors, Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times best-selling author of Pride…
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…
Scenes from a Holiday Party! 12/12/12 in the English Department
Professors Daniel Saalfeld and Daniel DeWispelare Uproarious Laughter Decked the Halls Smiles All Around, Ready to Ring in a New Year Katie and Eve, this semester’s fabulous Work-Study Students Professor DeWispelare with Department Operations Manager Constance Kibler Professors Patricia Chu, Evelyn Schreiber, and Ormond Seavey Graduate Students Theodora Danylevich and Elizabeth Pittman Professor Holly Dugan…
Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Susan Nussbaum at GW October 6
PEN/Bellweather Prize Winner Susan Nussbaum Our first event in the Private Bodies/Public Encounters series will occur on Monday, October 6 from 7-9 PM in 309 Marvin Center. The event features novelist and playwright, Susan Nussbaum, from Chicago. Susan’s novel, “Good Kings Bad Kings”, details the lives and struggles of a multi-racial group of disabled youth institutionalized at the…
We’re Screening A Line Has Shattered Mon. March 24th
Join us on Monday for a screening of The Line Has Shattered, a documentary on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference with the Director, Robert McTavish. Where: Gelman Library, Room 214 2130 H Street, Washington, DC 20052 When: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. RSVP Required. Email cathye@gwu.edu “The Line Has Shattered is an invaluable teaching tool as well as a…
Critical Methods Symposium and Party TODAY! Rome 771, 2-5pm
Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural studies, critical theory, and literary analysis. This event was organized by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare, who (among other professors in the department) has taught our course on Critical Methods. We hope this will be…