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The Department of English, in association with ALCO, the American Literature and Culture Organization, is pleased to announce another great upcoming event.  On Monday, October 22, from 1-3 PM, we will be hosting Michael Kimmage, who will be talking about his latest work. Michael Kimmage is Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of…

Here is the tentative schedule for the spring meetings of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (or GW MEMS, as we like to call it). The seminar is open to anyone who is interested in attending. Anyone not on our email list who would like to be may contact the seminar’s rapporteur, Lowell Duckert…

17 days until the Edward P Jones Inaugural Reading at the Jack Morton Auditorium (January 29 at 5 PM). Share on FacebookTweet

So were going to have our First Annual T-Shirt Thursday Extravaganza this Thursday. As it turns out, though, we did not give students and faculty enough time to order their T-shirts from Zazzle. Also, “T-Shirt Thursday” does not alliterate. SO ORDER YOUR SHIRT NOW. We are about to discontinue this model, so you will be…

Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. As many of you know, the G-PAC curriculum (the “PAC” is for “perspective,” “analysis,” and “communication”), which affects students entering GW in the fall of 2011, does away with the current General…

The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing in Los Angeles, Jason has agreed to teach a course called “Screenwriting” (English 182.10) that will admit fifteen lucky undergraduates. The application form is here and can also be picked up in the…