“Modern-day Jane Austen” to read Thursday at 7 p.m.
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| Allegra Goodman |
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| Allegra Goodman |
The English Department relies on the generous gifts of its friends, especially its alumni friends, to maintain the excellence of the programs we offer to undergraduates and graduate students. Donor contributions allow us to present lectures and readings, fund scholarly travel, and underwrite research at all levels, from undergraduate to full professor. We thank the…
I met last week with the staff of GW’s Advancement office to speak about projects with which they might assist the English Department in fundraising. I was surprised to learn that most of what we seek is so modest that donors probably would not be that interested: significant gifts are those above $25,000. As an…
[excellent photo by Josh Wolf]English major and department office favorite person Tarek Al-Hariri is featured in The Hatchet. The article is about the Rome Review, a new literary journal of great promise. And if you are a current English major and wonder how you too might become a “department office favorite person” like Tarek, let…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE: Myla Goldberg describes her first novel Bee Season as a “personal” novel, but do not mistake personal for autobiographical. The tale of young Eliza Naumann, a spelling prodigy and potential mystic, is not Goldberg’s own. “My first spelling bee was in fourth grade. I lost on the word ‘tomorrow,’” she said when…
1. Go to this film, and thereby support GW English alumnus Jason Filardi. 2. Enjoy with some popcorn. 3. Tell your professor on Monday that the reason you didn’t get all your reading done is that the department chair commanded you to see an enjoyable film with popcorn on the side, and can you please…
I read in the Hatchet that this sly poem by Robert Frost was a favorite of Jon’s, and that he could at a very young age recite it from memory. I offer it here in his memory. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler,…