Love Bites: Valentine’s Day Lunch Break

This week’s edition of Stay Lit is all about film! Reel Affirmations is DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival and it starts tonight and goes until Sunday. Held at the Gala Hispanic Theatre this festival will feature documentaries, shorts, and feature films. It starts tonight at 7pm with the feature film Signature Move, which won top…

Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day.  View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…

As our GW English blog gets rolling again for the semester, don’t forget that you can also keep an eye on the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI) at this link.  Our calendar (to the right) will always be updated with MEMSI events, and all the events connected to GW English for…

Join us on October 15th from 3-5pm to hear about two path-breaking graphic narratives on ethnic American experiences from WWII to the present.  This Fall panel brings together scholars and practitioners who are innovatively representing race, citizenship, and immigration through the medium of comics. Professors Kavita Daiya and Patricia Chu will be moderating this event that…

It’s time to reveal a secret: I’m not actually an English major. My major is Dramatic Literature, which I like to describe as the lovechild of GW’s English and Theatre departments. As a DramaLit major, I try to see a performance in the District every month or so. In February, I saw a wonderfully intimate…