Festivating accomplished

Please join us on Thursday September 17 at 4PM for our inaugural event of the 2009-10 year, a seminar entitled “Messianic Time and the Untimely” Three papers will be pre-circulated by email on September 1, and should be read in advance by all who plan to attend. On September 17, we will have short presentations…

I hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s festivities as much as I did … and I hope that you are not suffering from the same difficulties in transitioning back to the workaday week. If you’d like a glimpse of what inauguration looked like to me and my son, you are welcome to browse my photos (you…

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…

English 40W: Myths of Britain Spring Semester 2009Jeffrey J. Cohen Much great English literature turns out not to be so English after all: the action of the epic Beowulf unfolds in Scandinavia; King Arthur was a Welsh king before he was an English one; Shakespeare’s Tempest takes place on an island in the Mediterranean, but…

Whether you are a graduate of the department, a current English major, or simply an interested reader, we love to hear reader comments. Drop us a line: chair@gwu.edu We’re always looking for suggestions — and volunteers — for our features. We’re particularly interested in expanding our featured alumni section, and in featuring the work, projects…

The drab room you see to the left is our department lounge, named for the distinguished GW Professor Emeritus of English John Reesing, Jr. The lounge is small and cramped, a graveyard for the empty water jugs from our water cooler, and not all that inviting, despite the recent addition of a new microwave and…