Inaugural poets

We scholars publish much that can be described charitably as dry. It’s a pleasure to post here some scholarship that is not only moist, it is also sweet and beautiful. Below you will find a recipe that Professor of English Ann Romines created from references in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding. Professor Romines also provides a…

 Nao Bustamante Artist Lecturer Thursday December 10, 2009  4pm English Department Seminar Room Rome Hall 771 Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance, video and installation artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California.  Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in galleries, museums, universities and underground…

Professor Robert McRuer recently won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Since Prof. McRuer began to further his unique research in the combined fields of queer and disabilities studies, he has also edited an anthology, taught at GW, and continued to develop his ideas….

Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…

Aravind Adiga has been awarded the prestigious Man Booker prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. More information here. Share on FacebookTweet

In the comments to this post, Sasha wrote: Why can’t this come true? JJC, can we start some big petition for a student run, GW affiliated coffee house? Is there really any way of making this happen? … Jokes aside, is there really any of petitioning the school to allot some money toward turning fishbowl,…