GW English in The Hatchet Again

RateMyProfessors can be a delicate subject for faculty members, who often mistrust and fear it the way business owners mistrust and fear Yelp! (“The food was awesome!” “The food was inedible!” “Awesome!” “Inedible!”). But according to an interesting piece in The Hatchet, the site ranking system seems to produce results that roughly mesh with evaluations…

17 days until the Edward P Jones Inaugural Reading at the Jack Morton Auditorium (January 29 at 5 PM). Share on FacebookTweet

Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy We remain very excited about our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel DeWispelare, who is currently teaching Romanticism and Critical Methodologies.  For Spring 2013, he has designed a brand new Dean’s Seminar, “Literacy and Literature.”  Spread the word to those who are eligible–first-year CCAS students seeking a…

Calder posted some excellent links, and I want to add one more. I’m a big fan of Sixth & I, a historic synagogue at the heart of downtown DC that provides a home to all kinds of arts and literature events. Many of these events having nothing to do with Judaism: the building is as…

We have made some important changes to the requirements for the major in English. They apply to you, however, only if you declared your major on July 1 2008 or later. You cannot, unfortunately, petition to have them apply to you. That means that if you are a current English major and are reading this,…

Rajiv Menon, a junior here at GW, was one of ten students enrolled in a one-credit reading course with our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Nadeem Aslam. Students in the class were required to keep a reading journal and compose an essay about the experience. We thank Rajiv for sharing his reflections with the English…