Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
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Professor Tara Wallace was interviewed last month in the Washington Post about The Complete Jane Austen, to be aired on PBS. The interview was reprinted in the Honolulu Advertiser, Buffalo News, Charleston Post, Tulsa World, San Jose Mercury, Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. Professor Wallace is a popular teacher of eighteenth-century literature as well as…
Don’t miss out on the EGSA‘s 4th Graduate Symposium Friday, February 7th, 2014! This year the topic is “Posting: A Symposium on What Comes Next” This year’s EGSA symposium focuses on scholarly work that explores the “post”: of race, space, nationality, humanism, and queerness. We will attempt to answer difficult questions such as, What are we trying…
Hey everybody, before I fill everyone in on all the great events going on this week, I want to welcome Kirk Larsen to the GW English blog! As an avid reader of The Colonialist, I know Kirk has a lot to bring to the blog. The biggest off-campus event this week is the National Book…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
If you have not registered for this event yet, you are just plain out of your mind. Do I need to tell you how famous Tom Mallon is? How amazing Suhayl Saadi is? How renowned H. G. Carrillo is? How great Judith Plotz and Faye Moskowitz will be? If you are not attending this event…
The author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Summerland, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — and MORE — will read from his work and then be interviewed live by Professor Faye Moskowitz. Michael Chabon will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, GW’s first Wang Professor of Contemporary Literature….