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by Robert Ganz Longtime departmental supporter Violet McCandlish passed away recently. Professor Robert Ganz has compsoed this tribute For many of us in the department, Violet McCandlish was a very supportive, colorful, warm and essential presence. In 1966, the year after George McCandlish took over the early American “slot”—which he filled so well—Violet and the…

[beautiful picture of Margaret Soltan by Nick Gingold, Senior Staff Photographer for the GW Hatchet]From today’s Hatchet, an interview with Professor Margaret Soltan:First of all, I wanted to talk to you about American writer David Foster Wallace, what he meant and what his suicide means for the literary world. My sense of it is that,…

We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet

President Steven Knapp invites students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends  to AN EVENING WITH   TONI MORRISON   Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8-9 p.m. Lisner Auditorium 730 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison will speak about her life and her work. The evening will include readings from Ms….

Follow this link to GW’s press release (which quotes no one from the department that actually received the gift). Follow this link to the GW Hatchet story (which was written by one of our own majors, contains one small typo, and gives departmental context for the gift). Share on FacebookTweet

English 3960-10 (36721) Asian American Literature   MW 12:45-2 p.m. Course Description: This course complicates received ideas of “America” as a nation of blacks and whites by examining the writing of Americans of Asian descent.  Our readings will examine what Asian American and Asian global writers have to say about growing up in Chinatown in…