Party with Your Profs

The English Department welcomes Ariel Sabar, author of the prize-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, for a reading Tuesday night, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. A Washingtonian, Sabar is a seasoned journalist. He covered the 2008 presidential campaigns for The Christian Science Monitor, and…

Queer theorist extraordinaire Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has died at the age of 59. I’ve been teaching her work since I came to GW in 1994. Though most of my graduate school friends were turned on to her work by Between Men and Epistemology of the Closet, my favorite of her early volumes was the second…

Acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will be on campus Thursday reading from his newest poetry collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. Skin, Inc. combines lyric sequences with Ellis’s own photographs to create an image for America. Ellis’s poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Best American Poetry, Grand Street, The Baffler, and other publications. He is the…

Congratulations to Tom Mallon for the excellent review of Yours Ever: People and their Letters in the New York Times Review of Books. An excerpt: It is next to impossible to read these pages without mourning the whole apparatus of distance, without experiencing a deep and plangent longing for the airmail envelope, the sweetest shade…

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ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS,My name is Rachael Baird, and I have been serving as the Communications Liaison this semester. As one of my farewell tasks, I am organizing an informal gathering on Monday, May 12 to celebrate our graduation. Hopefully by then everyone will have finished their exams, papers, thesis… college! Though we’ll be graduating soon,…