Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
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Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to accompany Lloyd Schwartz’s interview about editing the Elizabeth Bishop Library of America volume coming out on Valentine’s Day. Share on FacebookTweet
Please join us virtually this Friday, March 5th, 2021 for the annual symposium hosted by the English Graduate Student Association! Our theme this year is Decay and Regeneration and features a full day of events including panels, a featured speaker, a keynote by Anna Mollow, and a virtual happy hour and performance. The full schedule…
Come hear popular creative writing teacher, novelist, and all around excellent person Tammy Greenwood-Stewart read from her latest work as part of the Bethesda Literary Festival. Information here and here. The reading will take place this Sunday, April 19, at 3 PM. The Bethesda Barnes & Noble is a short walk from the Bethesda Metro…
Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we have two terrific new faculty members this year: the medievalist Jonathan Hsy, and the renowned novelist Herman Carrillo. We’ve also introduced a new course, English 40W: Literature of the Americas. A second version…
Tony Kushner will be arriving in 20 DAYS! http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Tony+Kushner/tony-kushner-2013-writers-guild-awards-press-room-01.html Tony Kushner is coming to visit GW through the Jewish Literature Live Program thanks to a generous grant from David Bruce Smith. In conjunction with Kushner’s visit we have and will be running the ACTING UP film series and a series of Play Workshops focusing on…
A reminder that this Monday evening the English Department will be sponsoring a panel discussion, FICTION AND SURVIVAL: IMAGINATION, MIGRATION, AND DIASPORA, featuring Nadeem Aslam, H. G. Carrillo, and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman. Nadeem Aslam is our inaugural British Council U.K. Writer in Residence; H. G. Carrillo teaches Creative Writing here at GW; Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a…