Poem of the Day: Ogden Nash’s “Giant Baby Giant Panda”
This, it seems to me, is not so far removed from George Wither’s motto: “I grow and wither both together.””
This, it seems to me, is not so far removed from George Wither’s motto: “I grow and wither both together.””
Disrupting DH Roundtable. Photo credit: M.W. Bychowski. The GW Digital Humanities Symposium: DISRUPTING DH took place in the Jack Morton Auditorium on Friday, January 30, 2015 9am – 4pm. The event was organized by Jonathan Hsy, Founding Co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute (the other DHI Founding Co-Director Alexa Alice Joubin is currently away on a…
In early December, alumni Cameron LeBrun and Joey Garber dropped in on Professor Annie Liontas’ Nonfiction Workshop. The GW graduates collaborated on their new and innovative podcast Double Feature: Hear Me & Drinking with Ghosts. The 11-episode podcast is a humorous and fresh take on “true” crime, that investigates the murder of Alaska Curtis from…
Our Open House this afternoon brought together a wide variety of English Department community members, everyone from first-year students to graduating seniors, as well as graduate students, alums, and of course faculty. Thanks to all who came! We closed the event with a tribute to Toni Morrison led by Professor Evelyn Schreiber. It was moving…
Name Like an Empty Bag My house is a mess. Fuck. Fuck. I burned my sweater on the stove. The smell of melted acetate, of reading. What if I hate it just because she does a better job of being me than I do? Too familiar, the sound of keeping my mouth closed. I am…
GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson Professor Ayanna Thompson has been featured on the Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, available on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s website. “Our own voices with our own tongues”: Shakespeare in Black and White is available for listening here. The library’s website describes the podcast: ‘In one of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the…
Nikki Giovanni at the microphone; Toni Morrison seated in the wheelchair on the right, with Maya Angelou (less visible) in the wheelchair on the left. In Blacksburg, Virginia, on October 16th, 2012, James Madison University presented the Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement Award to two of America’s most recognized authors, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. This…