Kathleen Biddick @ GW

[excellent photo by Josh Wolf]English major and department office favorite person Tarek Al-Hariri is featured in The Hatchet. The article is about the Rome Review, a new literary journal of great promise. And if you are a current English major and wonder how you too might become a “department office favorite person” like Tarek, let…

Missing Suhayl Saadi? You might be interested in this British Council website, which brings together information on the many UK artists the Council has brought to the United States. Share on FacebookTweet

Jane Shore recommended this poem by W. D. Snodgrass, written in 1959. April Inventory The green catalpa tree has turnedAll white; the cherry blossoms once more.In one whole year I haven’t learnedA blessed thing they pay you for.The blossoms snow down in my hair;The trees and I will soon be bare. The trees have more…

Read the official press release: GW ALUMNUS AND TRUSTEE DAVID BRUCE SMITH FUNDS NEW COURSE ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE TO CREATE A “UNIQUELY GW EXPERIENCE” WASHINGTON – A new course on contemporary Jewish American works of literature has debuted at The George Washington University this spring thanks to a significant gift from David Bruce…

The summer has flown by, like it always does. As I arrived at the office this morning, I saw students wearing bright yellow “Volunteer Movers” t-shirts, and I noticed a bit more traffic in the Academic Center elevators. (One benefit of summer: press “7” and you get an uninterrupted ride to the English Department.) Personally,…

Prof. Ganz enjoying time outside of the English Department Prof. Robert Ganz, an integral component of the GW English Department since 1964, will retire this spring. As a valued professor and scholar of Robert Frost and modernism, Prof. Ganz has seen the growth of the GW English department, as well as the different eras filled…