Welcome Back!
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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Postcard from New Orleans

Former featured alumnus Jon Williams sends this picture from his celebration of Mardi Gras. We publish it without comment. We love hearing …

This past fall saw the inaugural class of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar. Focused on “Books and Early Modern Culture,” the seminar …

Nadeem Aslam reads TONIGHT

A reminder — Nadeem Aslam, our first British Council Writer in Residence, will be reading from his work tonight at 7 PM …

Mr. Aslam was worth the wait! Despite last fall’s disappointment that Mr. Aslam could not arrive as planned, we welcome him now …

On Black History Month

The following is taken from Tayari Jones’s recent essay “Symbolism and Cynicism,” published in The Believer: The irony is that those who …

Professor Robert McRuer recently won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. …