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From GW Today: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Menachem Wecker’s account of the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies: Gas Chambers and the Metro Lecture series opens with contrast of spaces for “worthy” and “unworthy” citizens by disability studies pioneer and author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. By Menachem Wecker Although Washingtonians often love to hate the Metro, they do not compare…
Graduate Program in English: Rising Prestige
The English Department moved up eight places in the latest US News & World Report ranking of graduate programs in the discipline. We won’t be happy until we’re numero uno … but in the meantime, we will take this eight place jump over the last ranking, thank you very much. Share on FacebookTweet
Michael Chabon Reading: Recap
Michael Chabon is many things. A 45 year old male. A Pulitzer Prize-winner. A Jewish-American author. A true geek. The author, best known for 2000’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, doesn’t like to be referred to by a single, restrictive label. Multiple labels he can tolerate, however. If you keep up with this…
Toni Morrison Packs Lisner Hall
PhD student Elizabeth Pittman greets Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison at the F Street House Yesterday’s Toni Morrison events–the “Bench by the Road” dedication ceremony; the reception at Pres. Knapp’s F Street Residence; the dinner for 20 GW undergraduates (including more than a dozen English majors); the wonderful presentation Morrison gave to a packed house at…
Creative Writing Feature: Sassi Riar
Sassi Riar is taking Prof. Pollack’s Intermediate Poetry 104 class. Drawing a Line He had to crouch to sniff white.It took a toll on his posture,As if pulling him to the groundWhere he went after. His fingers, once colorful,Now pale from powder,Forgot all the notes they had played.Silence was louder. He picked at the strings…
GW English Mission Statement
The faculty of the English Department voted unanimously yesterday to adopt the following as our mission statement: The English Department of the George Washington University is a research-active community of scholars and creative writers. We prize excellence in teaching, publication, and service. We engage with a diversity of texts within a global and transnational context….