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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages
Professor and Chair Jeffrey Cohen has published a new collection of essays on the uneasy co-existence of multiple cultures in medieval Britain. Details are here and below. The book is in harmony with the English Department’s desire to explore how most literature emerges from within multilingual and culturally mixed contexts. The book is also related…
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…
Alumnus update: T. J. Miller
Actor, comedian and GW alumnus T. J. Miller (did you see Cloverfield?) sent me this note about star faculty member Pati Griffith: I remember that Prof. Griffith was the first person to encourage my writing. She was the first person to validate that I had a writer in me–I just had to develop that, and…
GW Creative Writing Students Feature
For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…
Gudelsky Awards for Student Travel to Israel 2008-09
The Judaic Studies Program at GW is pleased to announce that it will give awards of up to $2,000 each to 3 undergraduate students for travel to Israel in the 2008-09 academic year due to a generous grant from the Gudelsky Foundation. The awards will be given to students who demonstrate that travel to Israel…
Anya Firestone: “A Self-made Mannequin of Aesthetic Hedonism”
You may have seen senior Anya Firestone on the Dangerous Liaisons posters throughout campus a month ago. Or perhaps you have seen the fashionista in the flesh standing out in her heels and dress in a sea of flannel. However, this summer you will find Firestone in Paris, France. Firestone will be graduating this month,…