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Attendees at this year’s Mezipatra (which means “mezzanine” in Czech).Can you find any of the GWU students? Once again this year, GWU students had the unique opportunity to join Prof. Robert McRuer in attending Mezipatra, the Czech Queer Film Festival The students in the class will be presenting their work at a one-day symposium Saturday,…

We have made some important changes to the requirements for the major in English. They apply to you, however, only if you declared your major on July 1 2008 or later. You cannot, unfortunately, petition to have them apply to you. That means that if you are a current English major and are reading this,…

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What do the two people in our blog post title have in common, besides serenity and good looks? Funny you should ask. Both the Dalai Lama and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson were just named in the Utne Reader list of “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is, of course, our inaugural GW English Distinguished…

T Shirt Day is back this Wednesday, April 28, and you won’t want to be the only one in Critical Methods or lurking around the departmental candy bowl not proudly sporting a “We are Prose” shirt. There will be special treats in the English Department office (Rome 760) all day Wednesday for everyone wearing a…

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…