Prof. Evelyn Schreiber Awarded Toni Morrison Society Book Prize
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Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
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Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
My name is Tess Malone and I am a sophomore at GW majoring in English. This is what I have been filling out on every index card my professors pass out during our first class. Of course it really tells you nothing about me, the new Communications Liaison Intern, and definitely does not suffice for…
Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the opportunity to host visiting students or scholars who come to DC to take advantage of the resources at GW and in the city at large. Naglaa Mahmoud, a visiting student from Al Minya…
Professor Robert McRuer recently won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Since Prof. McRuer began to further his unique research in the combined fields of queer and disabilities studies, he has also edited an anthology, taught at GW, and continued to develop his ideas….
Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities In his book Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty suggests that “[w]e need to consider why we find anachronism productive.” And in this symposium on slippages and slidings of time, place, space, and identity, we hope to explore just that. Despite our discipline’s best efforts to encode…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE A few years ago Ariel Sabar quit his day job as an award winning journalist in order to work on a book. The shift from journalism to book writing was a challenge, but even more challenging was the subject of his book My Father’s Paradise, his father and his father’s history as…
English 40W: Myths of BritainSpring Semester 2008taught by Jeffrey J. Cohen Much great English literature turns out not to be so English after all: the action of the epic Beowulf unfolds in Scandinavia; King Arthur was a Welsh king before he was an English one; Shakespeare’s Tempest takes place on an island in the Mediterranean,…