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Trey Ellis at GW: Friday, March 27
Trey Ellis The GW English Department is pleased to welcome Trey Ellis as part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. Ellis, currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of several novels, Platitudes, Home Repairs, Bedtime Stories:…
Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability is Back!
We are happy to announce that the Composing Disability conference that was postponed last year will be returning virtually on Friday, April 9th, 2021. Please join us in celebrating the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. This six-volume collection focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century,…
2019 National Book Festival!
Looking for some serious English Department nerd action this weekend? Look no further — The National Book Festival is upon us. Check out the incredible line up of authors that includes Henry Louis Gates, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Barbara Kingsolver, Sigrid Nunez, and many dozens more. Find your favorite author, discover news ones, and generally…
Transnational Queer Film Studies Symposium: Saturday
Some of the students in English 3980 on a rainy day in Prague Students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3980, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” had the opportunity this semester to participate in one of the department’s most unique offerings. The course was taught all semester here at GW while another version of it…
Composing Disability: Crip Ecologies, April 7-8, 2016
Sunaura Taylor, Arctic Wheelchair, 2013 UWatercolor and Ink on Paper, 7″ x 10″ UPDATED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS! October 31, 2015 George Washington University’s biennial Composing Disability Conference returns in Spring 2016 with the theme of “Crip Ecologies.” The event will be held April 7-8, 2016; featured speakers include Sunaura Taylor and Riva Lehrer, with others to…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Beverly Lowry
Beverly Lowry, author of Who Killed These Girls? will read on February 22nd at 7:30 PM in Gelman Library, Room 702 as the next installation of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. From Penguin Random House: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has…