Jeffrey Cohen Featured in Hatchet for Guggenheim

Alumna Casey Wasserman writes: I suppose my “career” is the pursuit of a quirky, unconventional intellectual obsession. I’m technically working on my PhD in English at Duke, focusing on 20th c. African American literature and popular culture. Truth be told, those who know me best would argue I’m trying to get a degree in James…

This past fall saw the inaugural class of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar. Focused on “Books and Early Modern Culture,” the seminar is the first offering of the new Undergraduate Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The seminar was developed with the support of the Dean’s office of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences…

Although you wouldn’t know it from the mild manner of those of us who inhabit Rome 760, the English Department has been quite busy lately. This is not Prof. Tongson at GW last week, although the set up was remarkably similar and the photo is in the commons! Last week, in addition to seeing the…

Three students from this year’s Folger-GW seminar will be giving presentations on their research. The event is open to everyone, including folks who are not readers at the Library. Please pass the invitation on to others! Sarah. Please come to a presentation by students from the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar Philip Getz on Maimonides’s Canones…

On Feb. 24, the English department cosponsored an event with the Office of the President honoring new Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore, who assumed the position in July after the retirement of GW Prof. Emerita Gail Kern Paster. Pres. Knapp and Diane Knapp opened the F Street House to about three dozen invitees, including…

Bruce MacKinnon teaches creative writing here at GW. His wonderful new book of poems is called Mystery Schools. Here are some endorsements and some information. “In his attention to detail and in his reverence for the smallest moments of experience Bruce MacKinnon compounds and intensifies the events of daily life. Mystery Schools sings with a…