Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Death and the Subaltern”

Denise Duhamel, a terrific and prolific poet, will be reading at GW on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in 1957 E Street, Room 213. The reading is the final event of the Jenny McKean Moore series this year.   Duhamel is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, including Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Mille…

A few years ago GW initiated a Writing in the Disciplines (WID) program to ensure that the attention to writing given in the first year of study continues thereafter. I’m naturally skeptical of all initiatives, especially when they come bearing acronyms, but I have to say that the WID program is very well thought out…

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Flying High Like a Disco Jalebi: Gay Bombay and Beyond, a talk and reading Parmesh Shahani, TED and MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, and author of “Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India” (2008) Tuesday, November 8,  2-3.30 pm  Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd St. NW) Parmesh Shahani is not your usual academic….

You may have heard that David Bruce Smith generously funded an undergraduate course taught by Faye Moskowitz. “Jewish Literature Live” brings the authors of books into the classroom to interact with GW students. What you may not know is that it’s not just the students in Professor Moskowitz’s course who benefit. Three of the authors…

We scholars publish much that can be described charitably as dry. It’s a pleasure to post here some scholarship that is not only moist, it is also sweet and beautiful. Below you will find a recipe that Professor of English Ann Romines created from references in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding. Professor Romines also provides a…