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
The course descriptions are online. Registration begins this week. Faculty will be holding extra office hours to lift holds and for advising. Share on FacebookTweet
Every English major walks through her door at one point in their academic career here at GW. She had 208 meetings with students last year. In a sense, Prof. Patricia Chu could be seen as the gatekeeper to the English department. As the Director of Undergraduate Advising she meets with students to discuss majors, minors,…
Dear English majors, Just a quick reminder that our new workshop series in Literary Studies (ENGL 701-10) is scheduled for later this month and early March. The first workshop, on Working with Archives and Electronic Resources, will meet on Wednesday February 27 between 7:00 and 8:30; it will feature Cathy Eisenhower from the Gelman Library,…
The poem below is from senior Sam Chiron, who is a Political Science major. Sam is taking Jane Shore’s Advanced Poetry (117W) class, and this poem is the result of a fugue assignment. Spinnning for Jessica the teacher is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning”i am spinning, the teacher is spinning,…
Prof. Priyamvada Gopal Please join the English Department as we welcome Prof. Priyamvada Gopal, of the University of Cambridge, on Thursday, Feb. 10 from 4-6 pm in Rome 771. The title of Prof. Gopal’s talk is “Is Feminism Bad for Multiculturalism? Gender, Cultural Identity and Literary Controversy” Prof. Gopal is the author of two books,…
With the class of 2009 now safely out of GW’s hallowed (and under construction) halls, now is the perfect time to provide departing English majors with reassurance in the form of another Featured Alumnus blog post. Our subject this week is Mark Olshaker, a 1972 graduate of the GW English Department. As you’ll find, Mr….
