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Attention Alumni: Edward P Jones Event Just for You
KNOWING “THE KNOWN WORLD” Conversation and Reception with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Edward P. Jones Wednesday, February 18 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Alumni House @ 1918 F Street, NW Washington, D.C. Please join Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and spring 2009 Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, and four renowned GW professors, for…
Literary Studies Workshop
Dear English majors, Just a quick reminder that our new workshop series in Literary Studies (ENGL 701-10) is scheduled for later this month and early March. The first workshop, on Working with Archives and Electronic Resources, will meet on Wednesday February 27 between 7:00 and 8:30; it will feature Cathy Eisenhower from the Gelman Library,…
Prof. Faye Moskowitz Reads Nov. 2 (Wednesday)
Beacon Press, 1993 The Feminist Press, 2011 The English Department cordially invites you to join us for a celebration of Prof. Faye Moskowtiz’s literary gem And the Bridge Is Love, a book of essays originally published in 1993 by Beacon Press and recently reissued by The Feminist Press. Prof. Moskowitz will be reading from…
Humanities @ GW: A Student’s View
In the discussion that unfolded at this post about the humanities at GW, Calder Stembel kindly linked to a letter he composed to The Hatchet about arts and politics at this institution. The letter in its entirety is worth your time, but I want to excerpt some parts that speaks to the crux of the…
Reading Repair: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet, Photographer, and Large-Scale Renovator
Drawing on an argument made by late New York poet Audre Lorde that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Prof. Greg Pardlo introduced friend and fellow poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to the ample-sized audience in the Marvin Center Amphitheater last Thursday evening. Pardlo continued: Although Ellis doesn’t directly employ the metaphor of…