Michael Fauver Has a Blog
Former Featured Alumnus Michael Fauver has a new blog, named after his book in progress Why I Won’t Remember Who You Were.
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Special Spring 2010 Opportunity for Current English Majors
We are honored to have Sarah Werner of the Folger Shakespeare Library teaching a seminar for us this coming spring. Though the seminar is offered at the graduate level, we are opening five spots in the class to undergraduate English majors who are interested in the subject and who would like to do some advanced…
The English Department Congratulates Rajiv Menon
Along with eight other students, Rajiv Menon was awarded a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship. From the press release: Rajiv Menon, a junior from Kingwood, Texas, is a double-major in international affairs and English. Working with Judith Plotz, professor of English, he will spend the summer of 2009 completing research for the project: “Imagined Dravidistans:…
In Praise of Maxine Clair
After many years of teaching and service here at GW, Maxine Clair will be retiring. The department’s recommendation that she be awarded emerita status in honor of her achievements has been accepted. We are so very proud of Maxine … and we would say that we will miss her, but we are confident that we…
The Huckleberry Finn Brouhaha
It’s not often that a work of American literature makes the “Trending Topics” newsfeed at Twitter, but as of this writing, “Huckleberry Finn” is one of the most tweeted phrases online. You can read what some members of the GW English Department, myself included, had to say about the recent news that a forthcoming edition…
Plotzfest is Amazing!
Yesterday’s Plotzfest was a huge success. More than 100 people came out to hear our six wonderful speakers–Carolyn Betensky, Richard Flynn, Margaret Higgonet, Uli Knoepflmacher, John Plotz, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan–and celebrate Prof. Judith Plotz’s long and productive career. We heard papers about the “happy” and “unhappy in Victorian literature (Betensky), Randall Jarrell’s work for…
Celebrating the New Semester With New Publications
While the blog took a hiatus over Winter Break, that did not mean those affiliated with the GW English Department also took time off. Instead our faculty and students started off 2010 with three new publications!Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a former Ph.D student, just published her work of historical fiction, Wench. Undergraduate Tarek Al-Hariri’s work was featured…