Inaugural poets

We’re getting there. Paining is being done today, and new carpets are being installed tomorrow. By next week we will have a new–if empty–lounge! Look for a new refrigerator and new seating soon! Share on FacebookTweet

Horn tooting of the worst kind. Click on image to enlarge. Jeffrey J. Cohen Chair of the Department of English, Director of GW Medieval & Early Modern Studies Institute,Professor of English and Human Sciences Professor Cohen received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. He has an M.A. in English…

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg describes her first novel Bee Season as a “personal” novel, but do not mistake personal for autobiographical. The tale of young Eliza Naumann, a spelling prodigy and potential mystic, is not Goldberg’s own. “My first spelling bee was in fourth grade. I lost on the word ‘tomorrow,’” she said when…

Thanks to generosity of English Department alumnus David Bruce Smith, we will again be offering our Jewish Literature Live course in the spring semester (English 172.15). Students read novels by renowned writers of contemporary Jewish literature … and the authors come to the class to discuss their work. This class, offered by one of the…

We asked GW graduate Rati Bishnoi to let us know what she has been doing since finishing her degree. She writes: Presently I work as a defense reporter here in DC. After graduating in 2003, I set out to pursue a job in journalism and publishing. Before landing at the independent publication “Inside the Pentagon”…

Was it T. S. Eliot who wrote “February is the shortest month / Mixing brevity with terseness / Except when leap year adds a day”? I believe it was, and to my colleagues and our students the month seemed brief indeed, so enamored of Nadeem Aslam are they. Nadeem is the inaugural GW-British Council Writer…