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Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. Prof. Evelyn Schreiber’s book Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Louisiana University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2010-2012 Toni Morrison Society Book Prize, given every other year for the best single-authored book on Morrison’s work. The award was announced at the African American…

Please Join the Department of English for the Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading Thursday January 29 at 5 PMThe Jack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, First Floor Free and open to all, though seating is limited The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World, Mr. Jones is the Wang Visiting Professor of…

The summer has flown by, like it always does. As I arrived at the office this morning, I saw students wearing bright yellow “Volunteer Movers” t-shirts, and I noticed a bit more traffic in the Academic Center elevators. (One benefit of summer: press “7” and you get an uninterrupted ride to the English Department.) Personally,…

Good news! President Steven Knapp has written to inform us that the GW Medieval and Early Modern Institute has been chartered from December 2008 to December 2012, contingent upon continued adequate funding. Thank you, everyone, for your support … and we look forward to the years ahead with you. All of our events are free…

I graduated GW University in May of 2007. During that period in which most of the seniors (including myself) were thinking, “What am I going to do now?” I began to look into going to Chile to teach English. I had studied in Santiago, Chile for a semester my junior year, and had friends there…