Rachel Hadas Reading Tonight @ 7:30, Marvin Center Amphitheater

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…

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2010 GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies on Friday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in 1957 E Street, room B12. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Here is…

Last Wednesday, I had the fortune of seeing GW English professors Michelle Brafman, Mary Tabor and Lisa Page, in a reading that displayed an amazing array of talent. The three writers, also fiction and creative writing professors in the GW Creative Writing department, were part of a series of readings entitled “Jenny 2,” in conjunction…

Someone stole the electronic projector last night from our newly renovated seminar room. Value: $3500. Please let us know if you have any information or saw anything suspicious. This is very disheartening. Share on FacebookTweet

The Children’s Literature Association, or ChLA, is an organization devoted to encouraging high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children’s literature–a field more or less “invented” in 1973, when a group of professors set out to remedy the scholarly silence around–even embarrassment about–literature written for children. Every year the organization hosts a national…

Walking outside today feels like a scene from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The streets are disturbingly empty and the few who do dare to venture outside are so bundled up you cannot even see their faces. All winter wonderland fun has been abandoned for general misery. Instead we are locked up in our dorms, apartments,…