GW English in The Hatchet Again

Mention the Pulitzer Prize, and you’ll conjure images of a weathered novelist, scowling over the rim of his snifter. If the Pulitzer laureates at GW are any indication, however, a comic book sketch is a more accurate image. In the span of two weeks, the GW English Department has hosted Michael Chabon and Art Spiegelman,…

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David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…

Fall 2008 Engl. 172.10 Freud, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky Elective English 172.11 Medieval Drama pre-1800; or pre-1700 Engl. 172.12 American Coming of Age Literature 20th Century Spring 09 Engl. 172.10 Central European Modernism Elective Engl. 172.11 19th Century British Novel & Empire 19th Cent; or 1700-1900 Engl. 172.12 Disability & Literature Minority; or Theory/Cult. Studies. Engl. 172.80…

From the latest issue of By George!: In January, James Arthur Miller, chair of GW’s Department of American Studies and professor of English and American studies, will leave for University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he will collaborate with a colleague on a course on black Atlantic literature. Dr. Miller explains the subject…

The Department of English, in association with ALCO, the American Literature and Culture Organization, is pleased to announce another great upcoming event.  On Monday, October 22, from 1-3 PM, we will be hosting Michael Kimmage, who will be talking about his latest work. Michael Kimmage is Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of…