FINAL EDWARD P. JONES READING AT GW
The event will be held not in a cavernous auditorium, but a comfortable room in the Academic Center
one week from today
This fall we’ve introduced a new undergraduate literature course that places American texts within a hemispheric frame. Taught by Gayle Wald, the class has proven extraordinarily popular. Weekly lectures are coupled to small discussion section meetings. The course is writing intensive. Here is the syllabus. —————————-ENGL 40W.10: Literature of the Americas“Slavery and the Circum-Atlantic”Fall 2007Prof….
The Office of Alumni Relations launched the redesigned GW Alumni website. You can view the redesigned site at http://alumni.gwu.edu/index.cfm. Alumni, please update your contact information: www.alumni.gwu.edu/update. And do not forget the following: — Free lifetime email accounts, powered by Google (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/email/index.html) — Alumni Travel program 2009 destinations (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/travel/index.html) — Alumni Course Audit program (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/courseaudit/index.html) Share…
2005 graduate Madhur Bansal provides the GW English blog with this biography: After graduating from GW in 2005, I served in the Americorps VISTA program for one year as a Development Assistant with a non-profit organization, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). SAALT’s mission is to increase civic participation among South Asian Americans and advocate…
Rachael Baird, our inaugural (and wonderful) Communications Liaison for the English Department, is now living in China. Check out her blog and get a glimpse of her life post-GW. Here’s an invitation to other English majors, current and former: if you have a blog, drop me a line and let me know. We’ll feature a…
by Robert Ganz Longtime departmental supporter Violet McCandlish passed away recently. Professor Robert Ganz has compsoed this tribute For many of us in the department, Violet McCandlish was a very supportive, colorful, warm and essential presence. In 1966, the year after George McCandlish took over the early American “slot”—which he filled so well—Violet and the…
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…
