For a full account of the adventure, see Professor Soltan’s blog University Diaries.
The English Department has arranged for interested majors to enjoy a 1 credit reading course with our esteemed British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam. The course will meet on four Tuesday evenings (10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13) from 6:30-8 PM in Rome Hall 663 (English Dept. small conference room). The class is limited to no…
Our very own Dr. Matt Fullerty (English Ph.D. 2008) has begun a new tenure-track position at Chowan University in North Carolina teaching Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) and Composition. In spring 2013 he will teach English and American literature as well as an upper-level fiction class. GW students do not fear; Dr. Fullerty continues to teach at GW…
Read this. Then tell me the counter-example isn’t English majors. Who could be less lemming-like? They are practically flamingoes. Or platypi. Share on FacebookTweet
The latest issue of Conjunctions (“The Death Issue: Writers Meditate in Fiction, Essays, and Poetry on the Inevitable”) features a short story entitled “Andalucía” by our own H. G. Carrillo. Share on FacebookTweet
In anticipation of Michael Chabon reading at GW on March 23 at 7 PM (Jack Morton Auditorium, SMPA), I offer this piece that I composed back in 2006. I was in the third grade when I first read this book, and already suffering the changes, the horns, wings and tusks that grow on your imagination…
Do you ever wonder who is sitting in the front of the room taking attendance? Who is the TA leading your discussion section and grading your papers? As part of a new feature on the GW English Blog “Get to Know Your TA”, we will be interviewing the three Myths of Britain TAs Jessica, Nedda,…
