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NEWS FLASH: GW English is proud to announce that the University is a major sponsor of the 2011 AWP Conference, to be held in Washington from February 2-5. The AWP, or Association of Writers & Writing Programs, is the country’s leading organization of creative writers and creative writing programs, and its annual conference—which takes place…
Folger Seminar at CCAS website
To all current and prospective English majors: you too can live the glamorous life of the archival researcher at the Folger. Follow this link to learn a bit more about our GW-Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar, which will be accepting applications in spring 2009. Can you spot which of these dapper persons in the photo at…
Our graduating English majors do amazing things
[Last update May 14, 2010] They….. …. stay at GW for the English Department’s BA/MA program (Laura Feigin) or to attend GW Law School (Amanda Heerwig) …. get a grant to make art in Paris (Anya Firestone) …. work as a legal assistant in a small energy firm in Dupont Circle as a prelude to…
The Faculty Present for Your Viewing Pleasure: These Fine Mornings
This Thursday, November 29th, at 7:30 in Rome 771 your favorite English faculty members will be performing Joelle Biele’s one-act play These Fine Mornings! These Fine Mornings was adapted from Biele’s book Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Biele explained that These Fine Mornings was created “pretty organically… I thought my friends and I would just read some…
Aryeh Lev Stollman Kicks Off Jewish Literature Live 2012
Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman, who kicks off this year’s Jewish Literature Live readings, is one of those remarkable polymaths: an award-winning fiction writer whose “day job” is as a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. His first novel, From the Far Euphrates, was an LA Times Book Review…
Gayle Wald on “Soul!”
[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…