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Graduate students in GW’s English Department have launched a brand new theory reading group.
Graduate students in GW’s English Department have launched a brand new theory reading group.
E.L. Doctorow reading at Funger Hall last week. E.L. Doctorow’s campus visit and reading last week were a high point of the spring semester for the English Department. Doctorow visited Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the morning, talking to students about his novel The Book of Daniel, and then gave a public…
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We English majors, like other GW undergraduates, are often concerned about our future career prospects and the worth of our degrees. GW alumna Darci Frinquelli helps us realize that we shouldn’t worry so much. After graduating in 2010 with honors in English, Frinquelli enrolled at NYU Law School, where she has applied the knowledge gained…
This just in from Prof. Maria Frawley: the hilarious-acerbic poem about class called “Did I Miss Anything?“ by Canadian poet Tom Wayman. Read the poem online here. And there is a fabulous “FAQ” with the poet about his poem at Canadian Poetry Online, where, among other things, Wayman reflects on why his poem has hit…
The new semester is almost upon us: alarmingly (at least to me) GW classes begin BEFORE Labor Day this year. I am certain that some cosmic injunction has been broken, and am hard at work trying to stop it … but without much success so far. This summer we have been renovating Rome Hall 771,…
See this stack of books? English Honors students read them all … two at a time. Well, not really. But it’s a nice thought. I had a professor in college who had a photographic memory (really). In one class, he began reading Moby Dick and then closed the book and continued to “read.” For about…