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Meet Howard Jacobson: February 11 at 4 p.m.
Last December, the English Department gave out 200 copies of Kalooki Nights, the challenging, sprawling, inspired, and ambitious 2006 novel by English writer Howard Jacobson, this year’s British Council UK Writer in Residence. Jacobson is a novelist, broadcaster, and journalist; London’s Independent, which publishes his weekly column, calls him an “acerbic cultural critic … known…
Professor Mallon Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Thomas Mallon with Daniel Day-Lewis On Saturday, October 7, Professor Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Mallon is the author of eight novels, including Watergate: A Novel. last weekend. He is the third member of George Washington University’s Faculty, and…
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Congratulations to our new PhDs!
I hope you will all join me in congratulating our new PhDs-all successfully defended their dissertations in the last couple of weeks. They are: Michelle Beissel-Heath, Matt Fullerty, Cathy Hamann, Almila Ozdek, Myra Remigio, and Niles Tomlinson. Well done, everyone! Tara Ghoshal WallaceAssociate Professor of EnglishDirector of Graduate Studies Share on FacebookTweet
Early April News Round-Up
Prof. Margaret Soltan has been asked to be part of the second cohort of professors to give lectures at Udemy, a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Her first lecture, “Poetry and the Arrest of Life,” is here. (Scroll down to “poetry.”) Publisher’s Weekly gave Prof. Jane Shore‘s That Said: New and Selected Poems, a starred review….
Department Chair to Nadeem Aslam: “I hate you and want you to leave.”
Was it T. S. Eliot who wrote “February is the shortest month / Mixing brevity with terseness / Except when leap year adds a day”? I believe it was, and to my colleagues and our students the month seemed brief indeed, so enamored of Nadeem Aslam are they. Nadeem is the inaugural GW-British Council Writer…