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Professor Margaret Soltan has just returned from Nashville, where she covered the annual convention of the NCAA for the online newspaper Inside Higher Education. Soltan, who attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was delighted to be a member of the press corps, and especially delighted to take part in a press conference, during which…

Queer theorist extraordinaire Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has died at the age of 59. I’ve been teaching her work since I came to GW in 1994. Though most of my graduate school friends were turned on to her work by Between Men and Epistemology of the Closet, my favorite of her early volumes was the second…

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Photo by Assaf Evron From September 28-October 4, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor J. Jack Halberstam as this year’s Wang Distinguised Professor-in-Residence.  Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.  He is the author of five books, including In a Queer…

Hi, again. It’s me, Kirk. Did you hear about this?! [Washington Post]A grenade was found in Rock Creek Park this morning & removed by the army.Hooray! Efficiency! Like the Rock Creek’s maintenance worker, Gayle Wald “[saw] something, [said] something: she linked us to this post on Will Ostrem’s blog, Northern Light. The post highlights some…

Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…