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A Special Alumni EventPlease join the English Department for a panel discussion on “Literature in a Global Age,” the past and future of writing in English. A panel of authors and critics will lead a lively discussion of literature familiar and new, exploring the art that happens when cultures meet — and clash. The panel…
We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet
Professor Vanashree Banerjee is currently with us at GW from the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University through a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Professor Banerjee is currently teaching one course, English 173.11, Modern and Contemporary Indian Drama. Before coming to GW, Professor Banerjee has been teaching for almost twenty-four years, and has been widely…
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
E.L. Doctorow reading at Funger Hall last week. E.L. Doctorow’s campus visit and reading last week were a high point of the spring semester for the English Department. Doctorow visited Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the morning, talking to students about his novel The Book of Daniel, and then gave a public…
Including our own Jane Shore. Check it out! From the site: The Washington, DC, Poetry Tour reveals our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets, including Archibald MacLeish, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Elizabeth Bishop, among many others. From the hallowed halls of the federal buildings to neighborhood side streets, the tour features poems…
