Professor DeWispelare’s New Dean’s Seminar for Spring 2013
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Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy |
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Photo Credit: “Alphabetization Campaign” (1974). René Burri, Havana, Cuba |
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Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy |
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Photo Credit: “Alphabetization Campaign” (1974). René Burri, Havana, Cuba |
This just in from Prof. Holly Dugan, describing her fascinating summer 2010 English course: This summer, I’ll be teaching a course on early English drama that culminates with a week abroad, exploring Edinburgh, Scotland and Yorkshire, England and watching the 2010 production of the York mystery plays. I’m writing here in the hopes that I…
An alumnus of the GW English department, David Bruce Smith, recently donated to the faculty a copy of Tennessee, a deluxe edition of three plays by Tennessee Williams with six beautiful illustrations by Clarice Smith. The presentation is stunning. A large and elegant box wrapped in soft black leather and imprinted with gold lettering opens…
[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…
Annual Report for 2008-09 Submitted by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Director Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor and Chair of English Leah Chang, Assistant Professor of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Holly Dugan, Assistant Professor of English Gil Harris, Professor of English Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English Jehangir Y. Malegam, Assistant Professor of…
From the University of Nebraska Press website: Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery—conflicts in…
The GW English Department would like to thank the following benefactors for their generous support this year: Jenny Anne Burkholder (class of 1993) Ross A. Cherry and Catherine L. Omerod (class of 1980) Christine A. Coleman (class of 1991) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (class of 1987) Michal Fromer Mufson (class of 2003) Mr and Mrs…