Michael Fauver Has a Blog

To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a five part interview with alumnus Mark Olshaker. A 1972 graduate of the English Department, Olshaker has put his B.A. in English to good use as a writer, Emmy-winner, theatre-goer, and intellectual. His experiences…

Check out this alumna’s cool blog, and follow the link to her poem in Alive. Share on FacebookTweet

At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…

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,…

I hope you will all join me in congratulating our new PhDs-all successfully defended their dissertations in the last couple of weeks. They are: Michelle Beissel-Heath, Matt Fullerty, Cathy Hamann, Almila Ozdek, Myra Remigio, and Niles Tomlinson. Well done, everyone! Tara Ghoshal WallaceAssociate Professor of EnglishDirector of Graduate Studies Share on FacebookTweet

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