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If you are on Facebook, you may want to check out a new way to give GW English gifts. What could be better in these dismal economic times than virtual tchokes that cost you $0.00? Is the English Department good to you or what? Share on FacebookTweet

Congratulations to Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Tilar Mazzeo for a full-page review of her recent book, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume, in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. (If you go to the Times site, you can also be directed to a Google Books excerpt…

These days, you may see a lot of English professors walking around with coffee mugs and reusable water bottles. At our last faculty meeting, the English Department welcomed visitors from the GW Office of Sustainability, part of the University’s Sustainability Initiative. In addition to promoting research on sustainability, the initiative seeks to ensure that GW…

Matt Fullerty, a graduate of our doctoral program, writes that he has won an unpublished novel competition. All the details are at the Bookhabit website, which includes a review of the novel by Geoff Cush and a link to an interview. The novel is called THE PRIDE AND THE SORROW and was sent to UK…

Inside HigherEd, a popular and respected website that focuses upon issues in postsecondary education, features an excerpt from a recent book by two GW English Department faculty. Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan’s Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book argues for the return of aesthetics to the…

English Department alumna Beth Lattin (class of 2008) has her first article in Forbes: “Blue States Would Sing Obama Tax Blues.” Congratulations, Beth! Share on FacebookTweet