Margaret Soltan on the BBC
Those of you who read University Diaries know that our own Margaret Soltan was recently interviewed by the BBC about Norman Maclean.
You can listen to her interview here (scroll down a bit).
Those of you who read University Diaries know that our own Margaret Soltan was recently interviewed by the BBC about Norman Maclean.
You can listen to her interview here (scroll down a bit).
On October 23 2009 at 5 PM, Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson of Emory University will deliver the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies in the Marvin Center Continental Ballroom. Her talk will be entitled The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility, and Disability. Professor Garland-Thomson is a founder of Disability Studies,…
Please stop by the English Department office on the seventh floor of Rome Hall and contribute to the endeavor we’ve christened the Sticky Words Project. Our goal: cover the entire loooong wall in front of our seminar room (Rome 771) in quotations inscribed upon Post-It Notes. Your part of the mission: stop by and jot…
Our lounge space was painted yesterday, and today the new carpeting was put down. (This photo doesn’t do the carpet justice.) Now we just need some furniture and a smart design. Share on FacebookTweet
[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,…
Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 PM at the George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets (City View Room, 7th Floor). More information about Suhayl Saadi may be found here at the British Council…
The English Department is pleased to announce two job searches for this year. One is for the 2012-13 Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Writer-in-Washington, a creative writing position supported for more than 30 years by the Jenny Moore Fund. The genre of this hire changes from year to year. This year’s JMM Visiting Writer is Tim…