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Meet Howard Jacobson: February 11 at 4 p.m.
Last December, the English Department gave out 200 copies of Kalooki Nights, the challenging, sprawling, inspired, and ambitious 2006 novel by English writer Howard Jacobson, this year’s British Council UK Writer in Residence. Jacobson is a novelist, broadcaster, and journalist; London’s Independent, which publishes his weekly column, calls him an “acerbic cultural critic … known…
What would a fully funded doctoral program look like?
I’ve received a few emails about the post below, in which I suggested that the reason CCAS has difficulty retaining its doctoral students is simple economics: we do not support our PhD students with the same frequency or at the same level as the schools to which we compare ourselves. My experience is limited mainly…
Poet Lytton Smith TODAY @ 4 PM
Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…
The English Department Congratulates Rajiv Menon
Along with eight other students, Rajiv Menon was awarded a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship. From the press release: Rajiv Menon, a junior from Kingwood, Texas, is a double-major in international affairs and English. Working with Judith Plotz, professor of English, he will spend the summer of 2009 completing research for the project: “Imagined Dravidistans:…
A Personal Invitation from the Department Chair to Wednesday’s Event
You may have heard that we have decided to celebrate the successful residency of Edward P. Jones in GW’s English Department with neither a bang nor whisper, but with what might be called a whispered bang. Admittedly that does not sound right. So let’s just say that we are holding an event that does not…
A message from the department chair
On October 23 at 5 PM in the Marvin Center, we will hold our inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will present. Complete information is here. I urge you to come. We are trying to build a better sense of intellectual community at GW, especially for those of us…