From the Foggy Bottom Current

by Robert Ganz Longtime departmental supporter Violet McCandlish passed away recently. Professor Robert Ganz has compsoed this tribute For many of us in the department, Violet McCandlish was a very supportive, colorful, warm and essential presence. In 1966, the year after George McCandlish took over the early American “slot”—which he filled so well—Violet and the…

To all current and prospective English majors: you too can live the glamorous life of the archival researcher at the Folger. Follow this link to learn a bit more about our GW-Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar, which will be accepting applications in spring 2009. Can you spot which of these dapper persons in the photo at…

Jason Hipp writes: I currently work in the Development Department at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a fairly small, 15-staff person non-governmental organization (NGO) with headquarters in New York and regional offices in Buenos Aires and Johannesburg. Basically, I help to make sure that the organization can still operate financially, through any…

Professor Robert McRuer recently won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Since Prof. McRuer began to further his unique research in the combined fields of queer and disabilities studies, he has also edited an anthology, taught at GW, and continued to develop his ideas….

Interested in learning about the relationship between history and narrative creativity? — Ever had the opportunity to meet an award-winning, international bestselling author at GW?     Come to Jewish Lit Live’s Evening with author Nicole Krauss. Nicole Krauss is one of the most successful writers of Jewish-American literature. Her first novel, Man Walks Into…

We know that you are going to see Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on Friday. We offer the following quotation from her brand new book Staring: How We Look to whet your appetite. Staring is profligate interest, stunned wonder, obsessive ocularity. The daily traffic reports capture staring’s disruptive potential with the term “rubbernecking,” a canny summation of our…