We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new Digital Humanities Institute, co-founded and co-directed by Alexa Alice Joubin and Jonathan Hsy. The inaugural Digital Humanities Institute lecture will be delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, whose work on data-mining and literary analysis will provide an entry point into a discussion…
From October 10-October 14, Professor Stacy Alaimo will be this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor in Residence. Professor Stacy Alaimo Wang Professor in Residence, October 2016 Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she established and directed a cross-disciplinary minor in environmental studies. Alaimo’s…
Saturday, April 16th, 10AM-Noon Rome Hall, 771 Professor Anne McCarthy’s presentation for the Washington Area Romanticists Group is entitled “How To Love What You Don’t Understand: Discontinuous Subjects in Godwin’s Memoirs and Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence.” Refreshments, as always, will be served. This event will be of particular interest to students interested in Women’s Studies, the…
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…
Happy new year! Join us for our first even of the year to learn about the latest AI. From AI that write original papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on many aspects of higher education.
Author Dara Horn will be visiting GWU this Thursday! She will stop by Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live class in the afternoon. In the evening she will be holding FREE reading at 7pm in the Marvin Center 3rd Floor Amphitheater. Come to hear the talented and charismatic author of The World to Come and All…
