Inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies: Friday October 23

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Friday October 23
5 PM
Marvin Center Continental Ballroom
800 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies
“The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility and Disability”

Introduction by José Muñoz, Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature
University welcome by President Steven Knapp
Free and open to all who wish to attend

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson was recently named one of Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing the World. A professor at Emory University, she is well known for her work founding disability studies. Her most recent book is Staring: How We Look (Oxford University Press). For a recent interview, look here.
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