Dear English Department students, Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-2025 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as Chair of the English Department. I return for my second year leading the department, rejoining an amazing group of…
Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…
Attendant with Pearls: Abolition, Portraiture, Agency, and the Properties of Benevolence is the topic of this year’s Wang Endowment Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Patricia Matthew. All are welcome!
The GWU English Department, British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster and the University Honors Program invite you to a lecture: Translated From the English: British Reality on the Global Screen Professor Jim English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania Director of the Penn Humanities Forum Wednesday March 5, 2014 – 2:30…
This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM. The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…
October and early November are chock-a-block with English department or English-affiliated programming. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events. October 4: E. Patrick Johnson The Northwestern University Professor and performer E. Patrick Johnson visits GW during the run of his critically acclaimed one-man show “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” at Arlington’s…
