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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-25 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as new department chair.

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On February 7, Nadeem Aslam read from his soon-to-be published third novel, a mesmerizing performance. The reading was followed by a reception …

Happy Valentine’s Day

While not Valentine’s themed, Robert Hass’s “Privilege of Being” is the first poem that jumps to mind when I think of great …

Tara Wallace on Jane Austen

Professor Tara Wallace was interviewed last month in the Washington Post about The Complete Jane Austen, to be aired on PBS. The …

U R Special 2 Us

We wish all of our readers a happy Valentine’s Day — the only holiday invented by Chaucer. More proof that he was …

David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of …

Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to …