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English as if it were a Jewish Language: Dara Horn’s Visit to JLL
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE Many authors’ works are autobiographical, but Dara Horn is glad her own life does not inspire her novels. “I’m happy my life would make a crappy book. You don’t want to live the kind of life that would make a great novel,” she said during her visit to JLL yesterday. However, just…
Sign Up for 42W Next Fall: Myths of Britain
Professor Jeffrey Cohen writes to tell you about his fantastic Myths of Britain course next fall. There are still a few spots left, so make sure to sign up. You are guaranteed an amazing semester. This was the course that affirmed why I wanted to be an English major! The English Department recently gave my…
What to Do with an English Major 2009
Every year we ask our graduating seniors what their post-GW future looks to be: the class of 2008 reported here, and 2007 here. Here are some of the replies we’ve received from the class of 2009. We are very proud of our majors, and wish them the best of luck no matter what the years…
Holiday Wishes for 2010 and Beyond
The drab room you see to the left is our department lounge, named for the distinguished GW Professor Emeritus of English John Reesing, Jr. The lounge is small and cramped, a graveyard for the empty water jugs from our water cooler, and not all that inviting, despite the recent addition of a new microwave and…
The Faculty Present for Your Viewing Pleasure: These Fine Mornings
This Thursday, November 29th, at 7:30 in Rome 771 your favorite English faculty members will be performing Joelle Biele’s one-act play These Fine Mornings! These Fine Mornings was adapted from Biele’s book Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Biele explained that These Fine Mornings was created “pretty organically… I thought my friends and I would just read some…