OPEN ACCESS! A Cultural History of Disability
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Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world…
Although our undergraduate majors have been enjoying this site for a month, many new readers are finding the English Department’s blog this week via the Colonial Cable. We welcome you, and encourage you to have a look around. Try the “Contents at a Glance” list on the righthand side of this page. You may also…
Eva Hansen reflects on her time with the GW English Department The Practicality of Impracticality; Or, Why Being an English Major Was the Best Decision I Made in My Undergrad Career Eva Hansen “Oh… what do you plan to do with that?” This question, along with the skeptical intonation, is one…
Toni Morrison at GWU, September 21, 2011 Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison died August 5 at the age of 88. Professor Evelyn Schreiber, a specialist in Morrison’s work and former president of the Toni Morrison Society, was interviewed On August 8 on the Kojo Nnamdi show about Morrison’s legacy. You can…
The English Department’s annual Jack-O-Lit gathering had a great turn out this year! Many students joined the English faculty in sharing cookies and cider, as well as carving pumpkins into some very creative designs. Maggie Benda and Oona Intemann won Professor Daniel DeWispelare’s new book, Multilingual Subjects, On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long…