Join us for an interactive workshop on thinking beyond blackness and whiteness in the history of race at the GW Diversity Summit 2019 Please RSVP Beyond Black and White: Race in the World Alexa Alice Joubin 3:40-4:30 pm, Thursday, November 7, 2019 Marvin Center, Room 308 800 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 George Washington…
Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
I know. It’s the fifth week of the semester and you’re sitting in your dorm room freaking out about all the work that’s on your plate. You’re counting down the days until Fall Break (only 11 left), and wondering if you can make it until then. I know just what you need, therefore I am…
Inside the St. Vitius Cathedral near the Prague Castle Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall. This was the fifth instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to students from the Czech Republic…
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…
What are you waiting for? Come to Michael Bennett’s talk! Prof. Michael Bennett (BA ’02) will be returning to GW this week to speak about his book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. His talk, on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. in Rome Hall 663, is open to all. Bennett is Assistant Professor of English…
