RSVP Today: Simon Gikandi’s Oct. 30 Undergraduate Seminar
Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor |
Gikandi’s seminar will cover the novella, “Yahoo, Yahoo,” by Nigerian writer Sefi Yatta |
Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor |
Gikandi’s seminar will cover the novella, “Yahoo, Yahoo,” by Nigerian writer Sefi Yatta |
Vaddey Ratner Reading February 12th 7:30 PM Honors Townhouse (714 21st St NW) Author of the New York Times bestselling novel In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner will be giving a reading at George Washington University TOMORROW! “Full of beauty, even joy. . . What is remarkable, and honorable, here is the absence of anger, and…
Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day. View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman. Elliot Ackerman is a National Book Award Finalist. His novels include Red Dress in Black & White and Waiting for Eden. His memoir is Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine…
🌩️ Submit your T-shirt logo designs for a chance to win $100! Next semester, the GW English Department is hosting Thunder & Lightning, an event for Creative Writing AND English students/alumni to share their writing amongst fellow writers. All forms are accepted, whether they be short fiction, poetry, essays — if you wrote it, we want to hear…
Louis Bayard will be giving a reading Thursday January 31st at 7:30pm in the Honors Town House (714 21st St NW). Bayard teaches Creative Writing here at the George Washington University and is the author of The School of Night, The Black Towers, The Pale Blue Eye, and other critically acclaimed novels. As a child, Professor…