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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE There is a running joke in Jewish Literature Live that despite the course title no author will admit they are a Jewish writer. Typically most authors frown when posed the question of authorship and spend the next five minutes refuting the Jewish label. However yesterday’s afternoon with Gabriel Brownstein marked a turning…
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…
We know that title sounds gloomy, but we also know what the economy is like right now. We know that the paragraph which follows is going to make you say “I wish” and then go back to reading more amusing websites than this one. YouTube has some pretty good election-inspired videos. What about that Tina…
January brings a new year, a new semester, and new faculty accomplishments. This time I have the pleasure of highlighting two books and a BBC documentary. (Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story is a new memoir by GWU Creative Writing faculty member Mary Tabor, author of the prize-winning short story collection The Woman Who…
Dear friends,It has been my pleasure to serve as chair of the GW English Department for the past three and a half years. Now that my term of service is coming to an end, I want to thank you for the support you’ve given me to make this time in office so enjoyable — and…
ENGL 185.10 Lorraine Hansberry and 20th-Century Black Intellectual and Cultural History Lorraine Hansberry is most famous for her perennially popular play Raisin in the Sun, most recently revived (in 2008) by Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, and Audre McDonald, in an ABC television special. But in her brief life (she died at age 35), Hansberry produced…
