Please come to the English Department Colloquium featuring Professor José Buscaglia-Salgado “The Dissolution of Form: Metaphorical Subjectivity in Caribbean Mulataje and the Architecture of Coloniality” Friday, April 6th from noon until 2PM Duques Hall 251 Reception to follow, hosted by the English Department in Rome Hall 663 Professor Buscaglia-Salgado is the Director of the Program…
Join us for the next Jenny McKean Moore Readings Series Event, featuring fiction writer, Amber Sparks. This event has been rescheduled to take place on Tuesday, March 20th, at 7:30 in the Monroe Building, Room 110. Sparks’ most recent work, The Unfinished World: and Other Stories, is a collection of short fiction that, as Amazon…
Michael Palmer Reading http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/creative-writing-reading-series-with-michael-palmer Thursday, April 4th, 2013 7:30 pm Honors Town House (714 21st St NW) http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2010/05/may- 2011-highlights.html Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco for over forty years. He has published over twenty books of poetry, and has often collaborated with visual artists, choreographers, and composers such as Gerhard Richter and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. His…
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…
To say Jose Dalisay has had a productive career is an understatement. The Philippines-born writer has published over 20 works in fiction and nonfiction since 1983 and also has an extensive background as a dramatist, columnist and film writer. Born in the Philippine island province Romblon in 1954, Dalisay spent his formative years in Manila,…
Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 More than 150 scholars and students from a dozen countries assembled last month on the George Washington University campus for the Melville Society’s Ninth International Conference, focusing on the Civil War poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, two giants of…
