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.
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…
Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day. View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…
The idea for Open Space came up after a department meeting earlier this semester when Professor David McAleavey noted that undergraduate poets had no public venue on GW to share their poems. Recent public poetry projects for National Poetry Month like “Rent-a-Poet” and the “Poem of the Day” series, which was organized by Professors Thea…
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…
Professor Tara Wallace was interviewed last month in the Washington Post about The Complete Jane Austen, to be aired on PBS. The interview was reprinted in the Honolulu Advertiser, Buffalo News, Charleston Post, Tulsa World, San Jose Mercury, Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. Professor Wallace is a popular teacher of eighteenth-century literature as well as…
Helen Deutsch, Department of English, UCLA The Wang Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies will be presented this year by Helen Deutsch, Professor of English at UCLA. Professor Deutsch will be in residency at GW September 18-19, and will deliver a lecture titled “Savage Indignation: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said and the Demands of Late Style.”…
