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Professor Margaret Soltan, via Columbia News Service, talking about Gchat and professor-student interaction: For Margaret Soltan, an English professor at George Washington University, Gchat is wonderful for connecting with students outside of class. Over the years, the tech-savvy teacher has accumulated dozens of students on her Gchat list, and she chats with them frequently. While…

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…

On this, the first day of classes, my colleagues in the English Department and I would like to welcome you back to GW and wish you a good semester. Please subscribe to or bookmark this blog to keep up to date on events and important information about the major. You may also wish to become…

[fig 1: The IMDb doesn’t know what Dante looks like]by J J Cohen So John Filardi, an alumnus of the GW English Department, is here teaching a course on screenwriting, focused upon comedy. By all accounts it has been a terrific class. Today he invited Emmanuella Chiriqui (Sloan from Entourage) to his class. When I…

Prof. Evelyn Schreiber brought this cake to the department lounge today. It’s one layer of a birthday cake made to celebrate Toni Morrison’s 80th birthday at the Library of Congress last year. (This layer spent a year in Prof. Schreiber’s freezer.) Here is the cake in its original incarnation: This layer represents Morrison’s latest novel,…

E.L. Doctorow will visit with students and then give a public reading Thursday. On April 7, the English Department will be hosting a reading by acclaimed writer E.L. Doctorow. The author of eleven novels, Doctorow has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the…