GW English in The Hatchet Again

Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…

Check out the new blog by Sarah Werner, Wynken de Worde. The undergraduate program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dr. Werner teaches our Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar. Her blog is well worth bookmarking or adding to your RSS feed. Share on FacebookTweet

For reasons that will become more clear very soon, may we suggest that you add to your summer reading list a work by Edward P. Jones? Perhaps his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World? Or maybe his breathtaking collection of stories All Aunt Hagar’s Children? These are books that are well worth your time…

Former featured alumnus Jon Williams sends this picture from his celebration of Mardi Gras. We publish it without comment. We love hearing from you! Drop us a line — or an image — at chair@gwu.edu Share on FacebookTweet

With major reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere, it would be an understatement to say that Professor Thomas Mallon‘s latest novel, Watergate, is getting lots of attention.  On Wednesday, September 12, from 6-8 PM, a special event will be held for GW Alumni and others interested in hearing Professor Mallon read…

Our sincere apologies for the fact that our tea and sherry swilling party was cut short by the evacuation of the Academic Center due to a suspicious package. Alumni will be heartened to know that six brave faculty members endured the long wait for re-entry to Rome Hall, then imbibed the remaining sherry … and…