From Nokuthula Mazibuko

With the class of 2009 now safely out of GW’s hallowed (and under construction) halls, now is the perfect time to provide departing English majors with reassurance in the form of another Featured Alumnus blog post. Our subject this week is Mark Olshaker, a 1972 graduate of the GW English Department. As you’ll find, Mr….

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…

Readers of this blog know that Prof. Robert McRuer has twice taken lucky students in his “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” to Prague for the annual Czech Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. For GWU students and for Robert, a highlight of the course is getting to know their counterparts in the Czech Republic. Now,…

If you have not yet applied for the screenwriting course with megasuccessful writer/producer Jason Filardi or the fiction course with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones, it is not too late — but please apply immediately! The form for these sections of 182 can be found here. We need your completed application as soon as…

Salutations from the new English Department Communications Liaison, Calder Stembel: “Liaison” is the first word on the first page of the first novel by Edward P. Jones. It is also the first word of a less renowned piece: this blog post. On the first of the first of 2009, “Liaison” is the first word of…

If you are Margaret Soltan, among the projects you might undertake are blog posts that capture vividly the experience of being by the sea in the off-season. Between land and water is a philosophical verge. Professor Soltan captures her own moment of drift in prose passage that reads like poetry. An excerpt: Off-season, the sand…