Guess who is coming to campus on Monday March 23?

Drawing on an argument made by late New York poet Audre Lorde that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Prof. Greg Pardlo introduced friend and fellow poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to the ample-sized audience in the Marvin Center Amphitheater last Thursday evening. Pardlo continued: Although Ellis doesn’t directly employ the metaphor of…

From David McAleavey:Now is the time to apply to the English and Creative Writing major – for juniors — i.e., ONLY for those who are to graduate in Fall ’09 or Spring ’10. The application consists of 2 hard copies of both a 1-p. statement explaining your interest, and a writing sample (10-15 pp. if…

KNOWING “THE KNOWN WORLD” Conversation and Reception with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Edward P. Jones Wednesday, February 18 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Alumni House @ 1918 F Street, NW Washington, D.C. Please join Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and spring 2009 Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, and four renowned GW professors, for…

Now that we have officially announced that Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will be our first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. The Known World follows the complicated history that unfolds around a Virginia plantation, owned…

Dear English majors, The plenary lecture given by Stephen Greenblatt this Wednesday at 10 AM in the Marvin Center is an important moment for all of us who work in and value the humanities. It is, to my mind, a major public acknowledgment that the humanities matter at the George Washington University. PLEASE register for…

If you are a current GW undergraduate and you had the chance to meet our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi, would you please take this very brief survey? We’d be extremely grateful. Share on FacebookTweet