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Creative Writing Feature: Jessica Deputato
Senior Jessica Deputato hails from Jane Shore’s Intermediate Poetry 104 class. Pleasant View Drive My parents had just leftfor my 3rd grade Back-to-School nightwhen the officer knocked on our front door.Outside, men unraveled yellow tapearound my neighbors’ houselike birthday streamers.Something happened next door,the officer told my grandparents.He asked us if we had seen anything,but all…
Introducing Howard Jacobson: Next Semester’s Visting Professor
We get excited about many things in the GW English Department. Our objects of affection range from guest lecturers to free copies of books being doled out. So naturally our enthusiasm has only doubled with the addition of the British novelist Howard Jacobson to our staff next semester as a visiting professor. Not only do…
Jamaica Kinkead @ the Smithsonian, 4/11
Internationally acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid will appear on Saturday, April 11, as the second speaker in this spring’s American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series, a joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art, pairing great works with leading…
Join Prof. Patty Chu at the National Gallery of Art Monday
Prof. Patty Chu will be giving a lunchtime lecture titled “Narratives of Return: An Asian American Photographic Odyssey,” at the National Gallery of Art on Monday, May 17. The talk will be in the East (I.M. Pei) Wing, Small Auditorium, at 12:10 and again at 1:10. It runs 30 minutes, with time for Q&A. Here…
David McAleavey in “Poetry Northwest”
You can read a new prose poem by Prof. David McAleavey on the website of the journal Poetry Northwest. David’s poem, “Daylily Season,” appears as a Web-exclusive feature. Find out how King Lear, the lingering scent of cigarette smoke, an umbrella, high heels, and Lady Bird Johnson enter the poet’s imagination. You can even leave…
Two English Faculty Win Teaching Awards
In May we honored our graduating seniors and MA and PhD students. But we’re also please to have two of our faculty member honored for their teaching. Holly Dugan, assistant professor of English, is the recipient of a Bender Teaching Award for outstanding teaching for the year 2011, in the general recognition category. Endowed by…