Grady Chambers on September 19 as the Jenny McKean Moore Series begins

All GW faculty and students are invited to attend — and participate in — this hallowed event. If you are willing to read, please contact: Bob Kolodney (bobko@post.harvard.edu, or 202-237-5202) If you’ve never heard of BloomsDay before, examine Margaret Soltan’s mania for the day. BloomsDay2008 Reading There will be a reading of Highlights from Ulysses…

  Jordy Rosenberg Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature April 22 at 7 PM for a reading with Jordy Rosenberg.  This is the third in a series of “live” public events featuring authors students are reading this semester.  Please register for this free event using EventBrite here and you will receive Zoom links both the day…

Former GW English Creative Writing Professor Jody Bolz has a new book of poetry out and will be reading at Politics & Prose on Sunday, January 12th, at 1:00. Shadow Play will be published by Turning Point Books in mid-December: Shadow Play, a novella in verse by Jody Bolz Hypnotic and provocative by turns, Shadow Play retraces a journey across Asia in…

English graduate students at GW are a busy and productive group. In addition to the usual–taking classes, studying for and taking graduate exams, writing master’s and PhD theses, teaching and TAing–they do a tremendous amount of work organizing social and academic activities. These include research discussion groups, dissertation reading groups, and the occasional EGSA night…

Same-Sex Star-Crossed Lovers in Global Shakespearean Web-Series is the topic of this year’s  George Washington University 2019 Annual Shakespeare Lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia). Please RSVP Friday, September 13, 2019 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM with a reception Post Hall, GW’s Mt Vernon Campus 2100 Foxhall Road NW Washington, DC…

If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…