Festivating accomplished

English major Jessica Chace recently wrote to ask what folks in the English department were reading this summer, so we did a quick poll. Here are reports from far-flung students and faculty:  Jessica Chace is finishing up The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. “The title is a bit of misnomer,” she writes, “–it’s actually…

Flying High Like a Disco Jalebi: Gay Bombay and Beyond, a talk and reading Parmesh Shahani, TED and MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, and author of “Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India” (2008) Tuesday, November 8,  2-3.30 pm  Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd St. NW) Parmesh Shahani is not your usual academic….

We have at our helm a president who is no longer quite so new. Steven Knapp is beginning to leave an imprint upon the institution, most notably in a reshuffling of important administrators. EVPAA Don Lehman is retiring. A search for a new provost is underway: this person will be responsible for the day to…

If you were sentient last week, you might have noticed the major media storm generated by the release of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua’s book Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It has been excerpted, dissected, talked about, blogged about, and contested, and has pushed Asian American families (or at least one construct of them) into…

When I signed up for this course, I expected a contemporary British reading course, not too different than most literature courses that I have taken so far. Obviously, there was the difference of having Nadeem Aslam teach this course. However, I did not foresee a difference in the way we would discuss the literature –…

Although we are at GW to learn, we must admit that student discounts are a huge benefit of being a college student. If you were interested in hearing Orhan Pamuk speak at the Smithsonian, but slightly worried about the ticket price, you can now attend because tickets will only be $10 for students! With this…