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Internationally acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid will appear on Saturday, April 11, as the second speaker in this spring’s American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series, a joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art, pairing great works with leading…

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Listen to GW English Ph.D. Dolen Perkins-Valdez in discussion with NPR’s Lynn Neary on a recent episode of the radio show “Tell Me More.” Dolen is promoting her new book Wench, which is set at an Ohio resort where white male slaveholders take their enslaved black mistresses. The book is based on an actual resort…

Ann Romines writes of a recent trip to Quebec to address a prestigious gathering of scholars: Novelist Willa Cather visited Quebec City for the first time in 1928, passing through on the way to her summer home on Grand Manan Island. When her companion, Edith Lewis, came down with the flu, their overnight stay stretched…

Unless you are reading the GWEnglish blog via Facebook, Google Reader, or some other RSS feed compiler, you will notice that to your right we have introduced our very first poll. The question we are asking is nearly cosmic in its importance: should the English Department adopt a new mascot, or is the noncolorful Hippo…

From Verve: 26/11 : A Historical Perspective Text by Kavita Daiya Published: Volume 17, Issue 1, January, 2009 When the terrorists struck on 26 November 2008, no one could believe this could be happening to Mumbai, to the people it did, at the places it did. Terrorism in India had until now, largely resulted in…