Haylie Swenson: First Winner of the Michael Camille Essay Prize

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,…
Joseph Fisher and Brian Flota, who describe themselves as “surely two of the department’s most handsome students,” are collaborating on a collection of essays entitled “Catastrophe and the Cure”: The Politics of Post-9/11 Music. Their call for papers reads in part: In current debates about the War in Iraq, it has become commonplace for politicians…
Although on sabbatical, professor of American literature Ann Romines has been busy. She writes that the following projects have been her preoccupations: “Why We Read–and Re-read–My Antonia,” talk for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program, Aurora, IL Oct. 2007. “Letters Home to Red Cloud: Willa Cather Writes to Her Parents.” Western Literature Association….
Congratulations to Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Tilar Mazzeo for a full-page review of her recent book, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume, in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. (If you go to the Times site, you can also be directed to a Google Books excerpt…
You may have heard that David Bruce Smith generously funded an undergraduate course taught by Faye Moskowitz. “Jewish Literature Live” brings the authors of books into the classroom to interact with GW students. What you may not know is that it’s not just the students in Professor Moskowitz’s course who benefit. Three of the authors…
English and Creative Writing major senior, Nada Shawish, was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the 2008 NY State Summer Writers Institute. According to the press release, over 350 applications were received, and Nada was one of thirty selected. Below, read more, in her own words, about Nada’s success and her representation of the GW…