Sana Krasikov Reading Thursday is Last JLL Event of 2011
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Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. |
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Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. |
We’ve had many questions about whether Patrick Cook’s “Shakespeare on Film” (English 129) and Jonathan Hsy’s “Histories of the English Language” (179.11) count as pre-1800 courses for the major. The answer in both cases is YES, and both are terrific courses. Professor Cook’s class has long been offered and is a perennial student favorite. Professor…
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“A few years ago the fund endowed the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington to perpetuity. As long as there are creative writing classes at this university, our students and faculty will be able to profit from the presence on campus of writers like the one we showcase tonight.” -Prof. Faye Moskowitz, in opening the 2002-2003 JMM…
Every president should commence a term in office with poetry. The arts are too often separated from government, and for no good reason. Only two presidents have invited poets to read from their work during inauguration: John. F. Kennedy (Robert Frost) and Bill Clinton (Maya Angelou, Miller Williams). Good news: Barack Obama has likewise named…
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…
Friday October 23 5 PM Marvin Center Continental Ballroom800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies “The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility and Disability” Introduction by José Muñoz, Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature University welcome by President Steven Knapp…