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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…
It’s February. What do Do?
So you’re wondering what to do before the English Department’s BIG READ on February 11 at 4 p.m. in Rome 771? (That event, as you recall, will give you an exclusive audience with the fabulously witty and talented Howard Jacobson, known to Brits as a novelist, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, and all-around public intellectual, and yet…
Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72) Part Four
To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a five part interview with alumnus Mark Olshaker. A 1972 graduate of the English Department, Olshaker has put his B.A. in English to good use as a writer, filmmaker, and self-proclaimed dilettante. If you…
Professor Sten’s New Melville Book
Professor Chris Sten proudly discusses his Melville anthology “Whole Oceans Away” Melville and the Pacific, which was released in the fall of 2007. In 2003 at a Melville Conference in Maui, HI, (what a great benefit of studying Melville!) Prof. Sten and two other editors began the project of soliciting and compiling a variety of…
F Street House Reception Honora New Head of Folger Shakespeare Library
On Feb. 24, the English department cosponsored an event with the Office of the President honoring new Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore, who assumed the position in July after the retirement of GW Prof. Emerita Gail Kern Paster. Pres. Knapp and Diane Knapp opened the F Street House to about three dozen invitees, including…
Creative Writing Presents Its Annual Fall Student Reading
T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever Lenthall House (606 21st Street, b/t F&G) Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Sign up for a slot (5 mins.) on the sheet in the English department office (Rome 760). Poets, prose writers, dramatists, screenwriters all welcome!…