For a full account of the adventure, see Professor Soltan’s blog University Diaries.
Please keep in mind the two competitive-admission courses we are offering for the spring: 1. Screenwriting with Jason Filardi (Filardi is a GW English alumnus, and the writer of several scripts for comedies that have grossed in the millions) 2. Fiction Writing with Edward P. Jones (Jones won the Pulitzer in 2004 for The Known…
Queer theorist extraordinaire Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has died at the age of 59. I’ve been teaching her work since I came to GW in 1994. Though most of my graduate school friends were turned on to her work by Between Men and Epistemology of the Closet, my favorite of her early volumes was the second…
Kevin Callahan It’s a pleasure to welcome two new student bloggers for English for spring 2012. Junior Kevin Callahan, an English major and journalism minor, is editor of the G.W. Review, one of GW’s two literary magazines. Since last fall, he has also been features editor of the GW Cherry Tree yearbook. In his free…
Alex Frank is a graduating senior who’s working on his thesis with Prof. Wald. Below is Alex’s description of his current work. [My] thesis is about the philosophy, art, and life of jazz musician Sun Ra through the lens of various contemporary critical theories. Sun Ra thought human beings would have to travel to another…
The English Department welcomes Ariel Sabar, author of the prize-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, for a reading Tuesday night, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. A Washingtonian, Sabar is a seasoned journalist. He covered the 2008 presidential campaigns for The Christian Science Monitor, and…
He is one of the most famous egomaniacs in literature. He is also one of the most famous disabled characters in literature. Who is he? Chances are Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab was not your first guess. Although the character’s missing leg is one of his most defining features, the crazed captain of the Pequod is…
