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Aaron Hamburger Leads DC Reads Discussion November 5
This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM. The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…

Examining Violence against Women in India
This Thursday: Room 602, 1957 E Street NW, Elliott School for International Affairs Examining Violence against Women in India: Changes, Challenges, Futures 11 AM-1 PM The panel’s conversation will explore the many complexities of the situation of violence against women in India, and also allow for a discussion of it in a comparative frame, linking…

Edward P. Jones Reading Response
After Chair of the English Department Jeffrey J. Cohen introduced GWU President Steven Knapp who introduced author Edward P. Jones, Jones read two selections from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World: From Chapter 5, the story of Sherif John Skiffington attempting to quell the fears of his sister-in-law Clara Martin. This roughly corresponds…

Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability
[UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information will be forthcoming!] Composing Disability returns to George Washington University this semester with a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. The six volumes focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth…

Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century
Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…

Campus Wide Read and Book Giveaway
GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences will give away 1,000 copies of The Known World by Edward P. Jones. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington, D.C., resident, Mr. Jones is the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature. He will be in residence in the English Department during the entire spring semester of…