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Robert McRuer and Jane Shore in the latest By George!
The June 2006 edition of By George! includes the following words about two overachieving professors of English, Robert McRuer and Jane Shore: Associate Professor of English Robert McRuer was researching and writing about lesbian and gay studies—or “queer theory”—and AIDS cultural theory when he was asked by a member of his local reading group to…
President Knapp Appointed Chair of English Department Student Complaint Committee
President Knapp graciously hosted the faculty of the English Department at his F St home yesterday. Although he holds a part-time job as president of a major urban university, Steven Knapp is most famous as a scholar of 18th- and 19th-century English literature and literary theory. He holds his tenure in the English Department at…
GW MEMSI Press Release
Readers of this blog have known about GW MEMSI for quite some time, but the university just issued the official press release: NEW GW INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES TO EXPLORE HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND THEATRE THROUGH NEW RESEARCH AND IDEA EXCHANGE Multi-Disciplinary Institute Focuses on Early Europe’s Global Context WASHINGTON – The George…
Jane Shore @ Slate
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…
English Department to Award $500 for Best Student Poem This Spring
Through the generosity of a GW donor, the English Department will hold a competition this spring for the best student poem. The contest will be open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, regardless of major. We will award this substantial prize annually for the next five years. So, get writing. [image from here] Share on…
Karen Russell, One of New Yorker’s “20 Under 40,” Reads Tonight
Karen Russell, a young American writer who was recently featured in The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” list of young American literary talents, reads tonight from her latest work. The reading, the last of the year in the English Department’s Jenny McKean Moore series, is at 8 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. All are welcome….