GW ENGLISH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS SYMPOSIUM Friday, May 2, 2008 Rome 771 1:00-4:30 pm 1:00 OPENING REMARKS Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Undergraduate Studies 1:10-2:10 SESSION I. PERFORMING SEXUALITY & GENDER Presiding: Professor Holly Dugan Lisa Francavilla, “Virgin, Mother, and Whore: Appropriating Female Bodily Agency in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I…
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…
A reminder — Nadeem Aslam, our first British Council Writer in Residence, will be reading from his work tonight at 7 PM in the Marvin Center Amphitheatre. Nadeem Aslam is the author of two prize-winning novels, SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS and MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS. His third novel, THE WASTED VIGIL, will be published this…
Friday January 23rd // 07:30 PM // $7 students; $10 public // GWU Lisner Auditorium PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at Lisner Auditorium Tickets are selling out for January’s PostSecret event, featuring website creator Frank Warren! Warren will be speaking at Lisner Auditorium on January 23rd, 2009 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $7 for students, $10 for…
The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman. Elliot Ackerman is a National Book Award Finalist. His novels include Red Dress in Black & White and Waiting for Eden. His memoir is Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine…
A PSA from one of GW’s literary magazines: Le Culte du Moi Winter Issue Launch Party Wednesday, February 4th @ 7pm Mitchell Hall Theatre Free and open to the public Get a free copy of the Winter 2008 issue, share your writings at an open mic, and enjoy French food. We’re not pretentious. We’re post-tentious….
