“Modern-day Jane Austen” to read Thursday at 7 p.m.
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| Allegra Goodman |
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| Allegra Goodman |
The latest issue of Conjunctions (“The Death Issue: Writers Meditate in Fiction, Essays, and Poetry on the Inevitable”) features a short story entitled “Andalucía” by our own H. G. Carrillo. Share on FacebookTweet
Now that we have officially announced that Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will be our first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. The Known World follows the complicated history that unfolds around a Virginia plantation, owned…
The following was sent by faculty member Pati Griiffith, who is helping to edit the plays. Highlights of Kennedy Center “From Prison to the Stage” Show 2009 On September 5, 2009 the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC will explode with the finest plays and music written by prisoners across America. This year’s edition of “From…
Jeanne M. Rose graduated with a degree in English twelve years ago. We asked her to let us know how she is doing. She writes: After graduating from GWU in 1995, I enrolled at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. My graduate work focused on the relationship between literature and composition, and my dissertation…
As I write, the news coming out of Haiti is unutterably sad. This small island nation, despite its proud history, has been battered again and again by disasters both natural and man-made. No doubt the poverty of Haiti is one reason the earthquake that struck near the capital, Port-au-Prince, has taken and will take such…
Our Spring 2011 Newsletter: Clearly something to applaud! As I write, the English office is quieter than usual, but not because no one getting work done. Rather, everyone is hunkered down: faculty are busy reading and grading; students are even busier writing papers and studying for final exams, which end this Monday, May 9. For…