The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series presents two nonfiction writers: David and Margaret Talbot, on October 14th at 6:30 pm. Their book is By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. They will be in conversation with Professor Virginia Hartman.
Dear English Major, The first workshop in literary studies for junior English majors hoping to enter the Honors Program in the Fall is this Monday, February 9, at 3 PM, in Rome Hall 663. Thanks to those who have contacted Marshall Alcorn or me and expressed interest. Join us, along with Professors Jonathan Hsy and…
The syllabi are in, and there’s definitely something stormy and Shakespearean coming our way! That’s right, it is not in error that William Shakespeare’s The Tempest appears on the syllabus of so many classes this semester. On the contrary, it’s a conscious, calculated effort on the part of Profs. Jeffrey Cohen and Jennifer James to…
The English Department was one of the primary sponsors for “Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies across the Curriculum,” held in the Marvin Center February 22-23, 2007. The event opened with a selection of disability film shorts from around the world hosted by prominent disability studies scholars and filmmakers David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder of the University…
If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…
Eventbrite RSVP. Please circulate. Please join the Africana Studies Program for The George Washington University’s Annual DC Emancipation Day Lecture “Frederick Douglass’s Tales of Abraham Lincoln” Robert S. Levine Professor of English, The University of Maryland General Editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature Drawing from his forthcoming book, The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard, 2016), Levine will…
The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival begins this Sunday and GW English is pleased to note that our alum David Bruce Smith (BA, 1979) is on the “Local Author Fair” roster for his new book American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States. John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice…
