Poem of the Day: Mark Doty’s “Ararat”
Professor McRuer in Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología It’s hard to believe that it’s already mid-August and that classes at The George Washington University start one week from Monday. Our faculty has been far and wide this summer and, indeed, you should watch this blog in the days ahead for news of all the projects…
This semester honors student Katherine Bradshaw took home first prize at GW Humanities Day for her work on Shakespeare’s King Lear! Katherine is majoring in English as well as Classics and has been working on her Luther Rice Fellowship project, which focuses on another Shakespearean work, Coriolanus. Professor Alexa Alice Joubin was Katherine’s mentor for her successful…
From the latest edition: Touring a National Treasure Alumnus shows students Library of Congress’ riches A tour of the Library of Congress allowed students to admire the building’s remarkable artwork and architecture. Photo by Rick Reinhard As they perused the personal collection of one of our nation’s founding fathers, GW students took a break from…
I first encountered Ogden Nash’s Giant Baby Panda poem settled like a gem in Marianne Moore’s 1944 essay “Feeling in Precision.” In the essay, Moore writes: “Voltaire objected to those who said in enigmas what others had said naturally, and we agree; yet we must have the courage of our peculiarities. What would become of…
Toni Morrison at GWU, September 21, 2011 Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison died August 5 at the age of 88. Professor Evelyn Schreiber, a specialist in Morrison’s work and former president of the Toni Morrison Society, was interviewed On August 8 on the Kojo Nnamdi show about Morrison’s legacy. You can…
The Dead The dead are always looking down on us, they say. while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the glass bottom boats of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity. They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth, and when we…