Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
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After Chair of the English Department Jeffrey J. Cohen introduced GWU President Steven Knapp who introduced author Edward P. Jones, Jones read two selections from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World: From Chapter 5, the story of Sherif John Skiffington attempting to quell the fears of his sister-in-law Clara Martin. This roughly corresponds…
Professor James A. Miller The Departments of English and American Studies and the Program in Africana Studies invite you to join us for “A Celebration of the Work of James A. Miller,” on Friday, September 11, from 2-6 PM. This event will be held in the Jack Morton Auditorium (805 21st Street NW). Professor James Miller…
From the 8/27/09 Hatchet: Sedaris, Atwood will speak at Lisner Michael Chabon and Al Gore round out the venue’s fall lineup by Sarah Scire Senior News Editor Bestselling authors Margaret Atwood and David Sedaris have been added to the long list of celebrity authors appearing at Lisner Auditorium in the fall. Sedaris, the popular humor…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: The Poetry Patrick Rosal Thursday, October 20th 7:30 PM Gelman Library Room 702 Join the GW English department for our latest edition of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Patrick Rosal, the author of 4 full-length poetry collections : Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016) Boneshepherds (2011) My American Kundiman (2006) Uprock…
Join us tomorrow, Thursday March 22nd, in Gelman 102 for the next installment of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring: Lauren Camp A poet, performer, writer, and educator, Lauren Camp will read from the latest of her three books of poetry, One Hundred Hungers, a collection that “explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and…
All three of these Spring 2013 PEN/Faulkner events have a connection to GW English. Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a 2003 GW English PhD, Lisa Page teaches in our Creative Writing Program, and PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee Thomas Mallon is Director of Creative Writing. Although the reading with Dolen Perkins-Valdez has passed, come out this Saturday to…