Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. As many of you know, the G-PAC curriculum (the “PAC” is for “perspective,” “analysis,” and “communication”), which affects students entering GW in the fall of 2011, does away with the current General…
The drab room you see to the left is our department lounge, named for the distinguished GW Professor Emeritus of English John Reesing, Jr. The lounge is small and cramped, a graveyard for the empty water jugs from our water cooler, and not all that inviting, despite the recent addition of a new microwave and…
Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones — one of the most beloved teachers ever to fill that position — maintains a lively blog. Recently she wrote about one of our own undergraduate English majors, Kirk Larsen, describing him as “one of my genius undergraduates.” If you follow that link, you will see…
Read coverage from The Hatchet about Prof. Jeffrey Cohen, winner of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-12 Share on FacebookTweet
From a student-run blog that I enjoy reading: The University announced today that GW will be receiving a 10 million dollar donation by the Smith family and the Kogod family to renovate the Smith Center. This is the largest donation ever made to the University. And it’s for basketball. While I have nothing against basketball,…
We know that you are going to see Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on Friday. We offer the following quotation from her brand new book Staring: How We Look to whet your appetite. Staring is profligate interest, stunned wonder, obsessive ocularity. The daily traffic reports capture staring’s disruptive potential with the term “rubbernecking,” a canny summation of our…
