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Poetry Workshop for DC Residents This Spring
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Student Poetry Contest Elicits 41 Entries
The English Department thanks the forty-one students who submitted poems for our first annual Poetry Contest. The winner will be announced on this blog in April. Share on FacebookTweet
Application for English 182 (Spring 2009): REVISED
We will have two very special versions of English 182 this coming spring. More information will follow here, but for the time being, here is the application. Applications may be submitted until the course roster has been completed, but we urge students to turn in their applications by Nov. 7 if at all possible. We…
Sparsification of the GW Hippo
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
Robert McRuer wins Alan Bray Memorial Book Award
The English Department congratulates Professor Robert McRuer, whose book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability has been awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award. This award is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Language Association. The judge’s report on Crip Theory declares: The members of the Committee were…
Reading Repair: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet, Photographer, and Large-Scale Renovator
Drawing on an argument made by late New York poet Audre Lorde that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Prof. Greg Pardlo introduced friend and fellow poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to the ample-sized audience in the Marvin Center Amphitheater last Thursday evening. Pardlo continued: Although Ellis doesn’t directly employ the metaphor of…