Nadeem Aslam “Book Club”

So you’re snowed in from Friday through Sunday morning. What to do? Consider adding one of these upcoming events of interest to your calendar: The BIG READ, featuring Howard Jacobson, author of Kalooki Nights. Even if you haven’t finished the novel, and even if you weren’t one of the 200 lucky people who picked up…

As announced previously, on Friday October 23 at 5 PM, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will deliver the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies. She will be introduced by Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature José Muñoz. GW President Steven Knapp will give the university welcome. Professor Garland-Thomson is a founder of Disability…

to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to  Prof. Thomas Mallon, winner of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $10,000 award is for a writer “whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose…

Rachel Malis graduated GW last spring, and she’s currently celebrating the publication of her poem “Odessa, Odessos” in the online journal damselflypress.net. In light of this new achievement, we caught up with Rachel to see what else she’s been doing. When did you graduate GW? What was your major?I graduated from GW in the Spring…

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…

To decorate our new lounge space, English has partnered with Project George’s Laura Van Biber and Elise Walker (both MFA candidates in Interior Design at GW). Here’s the plan they proposed. It includes seating for 7 people. Laura and Elise also helped us pick out durable, attractive, and inexpensive furniture that will add a bit…