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Writer Ariel Sabar Speaks Tuesday, April 13
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…
Free Music. Legal, Too.
Forget that new three-tiered price plan from iTunes. Get your music free from Gelman Library. Humanities Librarian Cathy Eisenhower writes: The Library pays for it, but you can stream it for free through your desktop and create playlists–for yourself and/or your students. I’ve been listening to spoken word recordings in Smithsonian Global Sound this afternoon…
A Fresh Take on American Literature for Spring 2011
ENGL 1320W, Literature of the Americas, being taught this spring by Department Chair Prof. Gayle Wald, offers students a multicultural, transnational introduction to American literature. One of our goals is to understand “America” in relation to the elsewheres it has always contained, and to ask questions about America itself. Students read works by Langston Hughes,…
A Mind-Opening Evening with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
We are sure that you heard about the GW Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies with the amazing Rosemarie Garland-Thomson last night. There were posters all over campus. Virtually every blog post in the past month has mentioned it. Professor Cohen even threatened the GW English Department’s Facebook fans with this particular status, “What…
Catching Up With Alumnus Michael Y. Bennett
English majors are everywhere. They work in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. They work in business, law, public relations, government, development, criminal justice, healthcare, IT, and education. Occasionally they even become English professors. Alum Michael Bennett is one of those GW English majors who decided he hadn’t had enough after earning his BA in…
Adam Kirsch Talk Cancelled for Thursday Night
CANCELLATION The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information. Share on FacebookTweet