MG Lord in the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series

Transnational Queer Film Studies students and Professor Karen Tongson of USC in Prague Photo by Robert McRuer Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall.  This was the seventh instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to…

The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Diaz, is reading from his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this Wednesday (September 10th) at Politics and Prose at 7 PM (though it’s advisable to be early). This is a great opportunity to meet one of the most celebrated young authors in the…

Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural studies, critical theory, and literary analysis. This event was organized by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare, who (among other professors in the department) has taught our course on Critical Methods. We hope this will be…

Melville and Whitman in Washington:  The Civil War Years and After History • Politics • Nation • Memory The Ninth International Melville Conference Washington , DC • June 4-7, 2013 8:30 a.m., June 4, to 1 p.m., June 7                                                 Featured Keynote Speakers Ken Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Ed Folsom (Universityof Iowa), Elizabeth Renker (Ohio State University), and…

Job Search Workshop: The Candidates’ Perspective Monday September 11 @ 11:00-12:00  Phillips 111 — Modulized CV, cover letter, writing sample, recommendation letters, teaching philosophy   — Your digital footprint (presence)   — Dealing with factors in your favor or against you: disability, race, gender, class, religion, age   Job Search Workshop: The Employers’ Perspective Monday September 18 @ 11:00-12:00…