Jeffrey Cohen Featured in Hatchet for Guggenheim

Check out this alumna’s cool blog, and follow the link to her poem in Alive. Share on FacebookTweet

We are sure that you heard about the GW Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies with the amazing Rosemarie Garland-Thomson last night. There were posters all over campus. Virtually every blog post in the past month has mentioned it. Professor Cohen even threatened the GW English Department’s Facebook fans with this particular status, “What…

The Office of Alumni Relations launched the redesigned GW Alumni website. You can view the redesigned site at http://alumni.gwu.edu/index.cfm. Alumni, please update your contact information: www.alumni.gwu.edu/update. And do not forget the following: — Free lifetime email accounts, powered by Google (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/email/index.html) — Alumni Travel program 2009 destinations (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/travel/index.html) — Alumni Course Audit program (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/courseaudit/index.html) Share…

We will soon announce a Big Lecture here at GW by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a founder of the discipline of disability studies. Her new book Staring: How We Look is just out from Oxford University Press. Share on FacebookTweet

David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…

What influences poet Ed Skoog? Really, the question should be where is Ed Skoog influenced. Skoog, the newest Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence, may be in DC right now, but whose to say where he will be next fall. Even he does not know or want to know. “I don’t want to pick a…