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Orientation for New Graduate Students
from Gil Harris, Director of Graduate Studies:This year’s English Graduate Student Orientation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 26, from 9:00 till 11:00 am in Rome 771. All new graduate students — including first-year BA/MA students, entering MA students, and entering PhD students — are expected to attend, but everyone else is welcome too, especially faculty…
Jeffrey J. Cohen at Hamilton College
Professor and chair of the English department Jeffrey J. Cohen just presented from his book in progress at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. His public lecture was called “Through a Monster’s Eyes: The Landscape of Postcolonial England.” An analysis of the strange case of two green children discovered in Woolpit (England) in the twelfth…
What’s Next?
Are you hankering for some intellectual stimulation in between Sara Ahmed‘s fabulous GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies and TemFest II on December 3? Eager for some literary light now that the days are shorter and the sunshine less abundant? Two events this week should prove just the thing for the mid-November…
Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize
Aravind Adiga has been awarded the prestigious Man Booker prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. More information here. Share on FacebookTweet
Jody Bolz to Read at MLK Public Library Tuesday
Former GW creative writer professor Jodi Bolz. UPDATE 5/22/12 at 11:48 a.m.: Tonight’s reading by Jodi Bolz is at 6:30 p.m. Jodi Bolz, who taught in our creative writing program for more than 20 years, will be reading from her work at the Martin Luther King Jr. branch of the DC Public Library Tuesday, May…
T-SHIRT DAY: APRIL 28
Due to popular demand, we are bringing T-SHIRT DAY back! Let it be known that Wednesday April 28, 2010, aka the last day of regular classes for the spring 2010 semester, will be our second annual T Shirt Day. Click here for an overexposed photograph of a few of the department’s best-looking faculty, staff, and…