Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Death and the Subaltern”

[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…

The parade of Pulitzers passing through the Jack Morton Auditorium has been great: Edward P. Jones at his inaugural reading, Michael Chabon, Art Spiegelman. We love that 300 people could fill the seats of that vast space and attend these talks. That these were standing room only made us all the more pleased that we…

Check out Jane’s poem “Last Words”: Once the patient stops drinking liquids, he’s gotup to 14 days to live. If he takes even a sipof water, you reset the clock. Eleven days without a drop. The rabbimade his rounds. They stopped herIV and her oxygen. I asked themto please turn off the TV’s live feedto…

Kevin Callahan It’s a pleasure to welcome two new student bloggers for English for spring 2012.  Junior Kevin Callahan,  an English major and journalism minor, is editor of the G.W. Review, one of GW’s two literary magazines. Since last fall, he has also been features editor of the GW Cherry Tree yearbook. In his free…

Associate Professor Antonio López’s first book, Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America, has just been released by New York University Press.  Professor Ricardo Ortiz of Georgetown University, author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, says of the book, “Unbecoming Blackness promises to make a transformative impact on Cuban American Literary Studies; it will certainly…

If you are a current GW undergraduate and you had the chance to meet our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi, would you please take this very brief survey? We’d be extremely grateful. Share on FacebookTweet