Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
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Join us today to celebrate the work of Ann Romines: American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies 2-2:30: Phillips Phillips B-120 3-4:30 PM: Myers Room, GW’s Textile Museum Full information on today’s events can be found here. As an added bonus, Professor Romines’s collection of 19th Century American quilts are on display in the Textile Museum, along…
Marissa Ciampi is a recent graduate of our English department who has come back to offer career advice to undergraduates in a series of workshops on March 26th, April 2nd, and April 10th. Since her commencement, Marissa has had a series of adventures that have offered her invaluable experience and insight. Margaret Soltan asked her to…
It’s time to reveal a secret: I’m not actually an English major. My major is Dramatic Literature, which I like to describe as the lovechild of GW’s English and Theatre departments. As a DramaLit major, I try to see a performance in the District every month or so. In February, I saw a wonderfully intimate…
MK Asante Don’t miss our Acting Director of Creative Writing, Professor Lisa Page, in conversation with MK Asante this month (September 17 at 7 PM) at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. This conversation is part of PEN/Faulkner’s Fall 2013 Literary Reading Series. Professor Page is former President of…
#Altac / #Postac: Rethinking the PhD Job Search in the Humanities Thursday, February 20th from 4-6pm in Rome Hall room 771 With graduation just around the bend undergraduate and graduate students alike are asking themselves the same question: What do I do with a humanities degree? Come to this roundtable discussion and find out! Whether you’re…
Still from Floating Skyscrapers (2013), Tomasz Wasilewski, dir. Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 9, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English 3980W) and “Intro to LGBT Studies”…