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Poetry Out Loud Finals Tonight at Lisner Auditorium
Our very own Jane Shore will be judging, along with writer/radio personality Garrison Keiller and actor Alfre Woodard. Host is John Leguizamo. The poetry recitation competition gets going at 7 p.m., but Prof. Shore notes that it’s better to get there EARLY. Share on FacebookTweet
Fat Studies in the New Yorker
The Fat Studies Reader, a collection of essays to which GW English graduate student Julia McCrossin contributed a piece, was mentioned in a recent New Yorker article: So what’s wrong with putting on an extra pound, or ten pounds, or, for that matter, a hundred and ten? According to the contributors to “The Fat Studies…
Poet Lytton Smith TODAY @ 4 PM
Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…
The English Department Thanks …
… its recent benevolent, awesome, outstanding, pure of heart, righteous, sophisticated, godlike donors. Among those who have contributed to our department’s mission recently are: Courtney Wang (2007) Olga Tsyganova (2007) Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) I find it especially heartening when our recent alumni donate — especially because I suspect they are still paying off their…
Tara Wallace Publishes “Imperial Characters”
Congratulations to Prof. Tara Wallace, whose book Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature is now out in print from Bucknell University Press, in its Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture series edited by Greg Clingham. During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony…
Prof. Mallon Releases New Novel About the Watergate Scandal
Prof. Thomas Mallon’s new book about Watergate appeals even to those born after Pres. Nixon’s 1974 resignation. “I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.“-Richard Nixon“And Watergate? Well, I’d…