On January 24-26, GW was the proud host of the university’s first Digital Humanities Symposium  Patty Chu and Peter Feng After all …

Nikki Giovanni at the microphone; Toni Morrison seated in the wheelchair on the right, with Maya Angelou (less visible) in the wheelchair …

Professor Chu describes “Narratives of Return: Transpacific Returns in Asian American Literature” at Renmin University             On Wednesday, December 26, I gave …

David McAleavey and Witi Ihimaera As the semester begins, the English Department Blog is happy to revive its “On the Road” series, …

    October can be an interesting time for literature professors writing about contemporary novelists, because the Swedish Academy announces the Nobel …

A Note from the Chair

If you are a close reader of this blog, you’ve likely noticed that I’ve been posting an awful lot lately.  I suppose …

How to Cite a Tweet

The Modern Language Association, or MLA, has been in the news lately for venturing into the Twitterverse with recommendations on how to …

That’s me at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in conversation with Lauren Onkey last week. Last week I had the …

This just in from Prof. Robert McRuer, who just returned from the University of Vienna, where he presented his lecture “Defections: Globalizing …