Festivating accomplished

All friends of the GW English Department (and if you are reading this, you are our friend) are invited to the FINAL EDWARD P. JONES READING AT GW The event will be held not in a cavernous auditorium, but a comfortable room in the Academic Center Wednesday April 22 at 5 PM Phillips 411 one…

Now that we have officially announced that Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will be our first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. The Known World follows the complicated history that unfolds around a Virginia plantation, owned…

At approximately 6:00 PM today, Edward P. Jones finished his inaugural reading as the first Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Literature. Now, I am finally able to reveal the truth behind the selection of Mr. Jones as the first Wang Visiting Professor. There exists a clause in the bylaws of the Columbian College of Arts…

By special arrangement with the folks organizing Toni Morrison’s upcoming campus visit (thank you, Prof. Evelyn Schreiber!), the English department has obtained several seats for undergraduates to attend a dinner with Prof. Morrison before her talk at Lisner Auditorium on Monday 9/21 at 8 p.m. This dinner is by invitation only and is for fewer…

Join the English Department Wednesday, October 20 at 6 p.m. for a poetry reading by three GW creative writing faculty members: Frederick Pollack, Lara Payne, and Daniel Saalfeld. The reading, which will be held in at 1776 G Street NW, Room 148, is part of our “Jenny 2” series, sponsored by the Jenny McKean Moore…

We are pleased to announce that Nadeem Aslam’s visa has been granted, and that the GW-British Council Writer in Residence has been rescheduled for Feb. 1-29. Mark your calendar now for the evening of Feb. 7, when Aslam will read from his work at the Marvin Center. Details will follow, along with a complete list…