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Prof. Chris Sten to Debut New Book at Politics and Prose
Literary Capital, Prof. Chris Sten‘s collection of “Washington writing” appears from University of Georgia Press later this week. Currently, the book is featured in a two-page spread in the press’s spring/summer 2011 catalog! Hailed as “an indispensable guide to the literature, culture, and history of Washington, DC,” Literary Capital gathers historical writing focused on politics…
Prof. Gil Harris Receives NEH/Folger Library Residential Fellowship
For the 2008-09 academic year, Professor Jonathan Gil Harris will be leaving his post at GW to assume his fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC.Prof. Gil Harris will be doing research at the Folger for his new book Shakespeare and Literary Theory, which has already been commissioned by Oxford University Press…
Jane Shore in GW Magazine
From the latest edition: Life, in verse By Jaime Ciavarra Poet Jane Shore is moved by ordinary moments. The GW professor of English captures life’s everyday details with lyrical language and colorful verse. When she drives her daughter to the hair salon or reminisces about a piece of furniture in her mother’s home, Shore finds…
Nao Bustamante: December 10
Nao Bustamante Artist Lecturer Thursday December 10, 2009 4pm English Department Seminar Room Rome Hall 771 Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance, video and installation artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in galleries, museums, universities and underground…
Our graduating English majors do amazing things
[Last update May 14, 2010] They….. …. stay at GW for the English Department’s BA/MA program (Laura Feigin) or to attend GW Law School (Amanda Heerwig) …. get a grant to make art in Paris (Anya Firestone) …. work as a legal assistant in a small energy firm in Dupont Circle as a prelude to…
GW Creative Writing Students
The poem below is from senior Sam Chiron, who is a Political Science major. Sam is taking Jane Shore’s Advanced Poetry (117W) class, and this poem is the result of a fugue assignment. Spinnning for Jessica the teacher is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning”i am spinning, the teacher is spinning,…