RSVP Today: Simon Gikandi’s Oct. 30 Undergraduate Seminar
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Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor |
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Gikandi’s seminar will cover the novella, “Yahoo, Yahoo,” by Nigerian writer Sefi Yatta |
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Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor |
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Gikandi’s seminar will cover the novella, “Yahoo, Yahoo,” by Nigerian writer Sefi Yatta |
Professor James A. Miller The Departments of English and American Studies and the Program in Africana Studies invite you to join us for “A Celebration of the Work of James A. Miller,” on Friday, September 11, from 2-6 PM. This event will be held in the Jack Morton Auditorium (805 21st Street NW). Professor James Miller…
GW English, We are prose. Remember in High School when people gathered in groups that excluded you? Don’t let that happen again. The English Department is BOWING TO THE DEMANDS of its majors (specifically to an agitated group of upperclasspeople whom we very much like) and declaring that Thursday April 2 2009 will be our…
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new Digital Humanities Institute, co-founded and co-directed by Alexa Alice Joubin and Jonathan Hsy. The inaugural Digital Humanities Institute lecture will be delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, whose work on data-mining and literary analysis will provide an entry point into a discussion…
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…
WORKSHOP on Publishing Your Research by Ben Doyle, Global Head of Literature, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing your first article or book can seem like a daunting prospect and, for the uninitiated, the process can see somewhat arcane and unclear. Ben Doyle, Publisher and Global Head of Literature for Palgrave Macmillan’s Scholarly division, will be speaking about the publishing experience at…
The last weeks of April are busy ones on campus. Here are three upcoming events of interest. Come out to hear our own Jane Shore on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips B156. Prof. Shore will be reading from That Said, New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in an event sponsored by the…