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Writer Azar Nafisi will read from her work on Tuesday, April 29th at 7:30 pm as part of the Jenny McKean Moore series. The talk is in the Marvin Center, Room 407. Ms. Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About. Her talk will focus on her new…
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
The 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Moore recipient, Sally Wen Mao, will be reading from her latest book, Mad Honey Symposium, on September 14th in Gelman Library (Room 702) at 7:30 pm. National Book Award Winner Terrance Hayes says of Mao’s debut: “The luminous image of a mouth ‘digesting light’ and later spitting ‘the light out because it…
Professor James A. Miller The Departments of English and American Studies and the Program in Africana Studies invite you to join us for “A Celebration of the Work of James A. Miller,” on Friday, September 11, from 2-6 PM. This event will be held in the Jack Morton Auditorium (805 21st Street NW). Professor James Miller…
Tomorrow evening, in honor of Latino Heritage Celebration, a Latina based sorority on campus is hosting an event called Virgin Maria vs. Maria Maria. The event is at 6:30pm in the MSSC (2127 G Street NW). The purpose of the event is to put forward a discussion about the highly contrasting and problematic ways that Latinas are portrayed…
Clockwise from Upper Left to Right: Sarah Schulman; Manuel Muñoz; Jordy Rosenberg; K. Tyler Christensen This spring, students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3840W, “Contemporary LGBT Writing,” will have four “live” visits from some of the authors they are reading, and after a class visit, the authors themselves will be virtually on campus for…