Party with Your Profs

Below you will find the (almost) complete schedule for the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI). All events are free and welcome all who would like to attend. FALL SEMESTER 2009 September 17, 3-5 PM: Seminar on Messianic Time and the Untimely. Registration has closed, but please participate in the…

The faculty of the English Department extends its very best wishes to our undergraduate majors as they finish their term papers and prepare for final examinations. For those who are completing their stay at GW, we look forward to seeing you at the CCAS Celebration, at Commencement … and especially at our annual reception for…

Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know. Share on FacebookTweet

Happy Memorial Day to readers! I wish I had a dollar–no, make that $25–for every time someone has asked me whether, as a university professor, I “work” during the summers when I’m typically not teaching. For English graduate students and faculty, summer indeed offers a respite from the usual round of classes, office hours, meetings,…

I hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s festivities as much as I did … and I hope that you are not suffering from the same difficulties in transitioning back to the workaday week. If you’d like a glimpse of what inauguration looked like to me and my son, you are welcome to browse my photos (you…

If you have not yet applied for the screenwriting course with megasuccessful writer/producer Jason Filardi or the fiction course with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones, it is not too late — but please apply immediately! The form for these sections of 182 can be found here. We need your completed application as soon as…