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(and he will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, no less. Details to follow here) Share on FacebookTweet

Thanks to the following recent supporters of the English department: Ms. Rochelle E. Deavy Dr. Charles M. Hanson Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Hickok Ms. Erika Lauren Kauder Mrs. Michal Fromer Mufson Dr. Jeanne Marie Rose Ms. Sara Ann Schwartz Ms. Madeleine A. Starkey Ms. Kelley Cherise Stokes Mr. Jon K. Williams These generous donors…

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GW’s inaugural British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam’s newest novel, The Wasted Vigil has just been released. Mr. Aslam read from the novel at the numerous events that the English department hosted to celebrate his residency, and I, like many of those I talked to, was greatly impressed by his reading of the first…

The Department of English offers its warm congratulations to faculty members Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan. Their coauthored book Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill has just been published by Palgrave. The book’s description: What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers…

Jason Fillardi, who will be teaching a course on screenwriting next semester, provides the GW English blog with this brief biography:“Jason Filardi grew up in Mystic, Connecticut and now resides in Los Angeles, California. But before moving to LA, he spent four of the best years of his life studying English at the George Washington…