From the Times Literary Supplement: Untimely Matter

Professor Vanashree Banerjee is currently with us at GW from the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University through a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Professor Banerjee is currently teaching one course, English 173.11, Modern and Contemporary Indian Drama. Before coming to GW, Professor Banerjee has been teaching for almost twenty-four years, and has been widely…

If you are a current GW undergraduate and you had the chance to meet our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi, would you please take this very brief survey? We’d be extremely grateful. Share on FacebookTweet

Connie Kibler, without whom the day to day running of the English Department would be impossible, celebrates thirty five years of service to GW today. She was presented with a plaque at a special luncheon (to which she was accompanied by a VERY handsome date). Congratulations, Connie! Share on FacebookTweet

by J J Cohen So you may have heard that the DC area has gone a bit overboard in prepping for the Inauguration and its attendant hoopla. All bridges to Virginia, for example, will be closed — apparently to prevent Karl Rove from leaving his home in Arlington and mingling with the multitudes. I am…

Karen Russell, a young American writer who was recently featured in The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” list of young American literary talents, reads tonight from her latest work. The reading, the last of the year in the English Department’s Jenny McKean Moore series, is at 8 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. All are welcome….

[x-posted from In the Middle] The saddest piece of our job as professors involves the number of farewells that teaching requires. Just when you’ve grown fond of a student, just when you think This person has really grown intellectually, is astoundingly smart, is becoming someone wonderful — this is a person I could converse with…