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Our New Website
Our new departmental website is being rolled out as I write. At the moment, it’s a work in progress, so please be patient with us as the kinks get worked out and various aspects of the website become operational. But we’re thrilled to be the first humanities department in Columbian College to have our website…
Honors in English: Important Information from the DUS
To: English MajorsFrom: Professor Jonathan Gil HarrisRe: ENGLISH HONORS January 4, 2008 Dear English Major, You are invited to apply to the English Department Honors Program. Department Honors offers a unique opportunity to participate in an intensive and supportive year-long program, comprising the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. In the fall semester,…
ELEW in Concert: Tuesday, 4/27 at 11 a.m.
This just in from Prof. Tina Daub, who teaches ENGL 81, Introduction to Creative Writing. On Tuesday, April 27 at 11 a.m. in Phillips B-120, the acclaimed pianist known as ELEW is coming to her class to perform, and his concert is open to the public. This is the same ELEW who performed at the…
Summer Reading
The short stretch between June and August is one of the few times I have a chance to read some non-work related fiction. This summer I found two novels that I would highly recommend you add to your own list. 1. Paul Auster, The Book of IllusionsThe best way I can describe this book is…
Prof. Gil Harris Receives NEH/Folger Library Residential Fellowship
For the 2008-09 academic year, Professor Jonathan Gil Harris will be leaving his post at GW to assume his fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC.Prof. Gil Harris will be doing research at the Folger for his new book Shakespeare and Literary Theory, which has already been commissioned by Oxford University Press…
Kudos: Prof. Margaret Soltan, Prof. Supriya Goswami
From the blog Online Learning Insights Prof. Margaret Soltan, known to students as a teacher of Don DeLillo, postmodernism, and aesthetics, is the first GW professor to participate in a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). Now her work with Udemy.com has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read about Prof. Soltan’s poetry course–which…