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Trey Ellis at GW: Friday, March 27
Trey Ellis The GW English Department is pleased to welcome Trey Ellis as part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. Ellis, currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of several novels, Platitudes, Home Repairs, Bedtime Stories:…
Sunil Yapa, “Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist,” to read at the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series
Sunil Yapa will read from his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Wednesday, February 8th, 7:30 PM Gelman 702 A novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a boyish, scrappy world traveler…
MARGARET SOLTAN AT GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND AT BOOKS@WORK
Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library. Here’s the…
BloomsDay in DC
All GW faculty and students are invited to attend — and participate in — this hallowed event. If you are willing to read, please contact: Bob Kolodney (bobko@post.harvard.edu, or 202-237-5202) If you’ve never heard of BloomsDay before, examine Margaret Soltan’s mania for the day. BloomsDay2008 Reading There will be a reading of Highlights from Ulysses…
150 Scholars Gather for “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After,” June 4-7, 2013
Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 More than 150 scholars and students from a dozen countries assembled last month on the George Washington University campus for the Melville Society’s Ninth International Conference, focusing on the Civil War poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, two giants of…
Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age
GW English PhD (’08) Myra Remigio-Leonard is among the DC librarians working to organize a series of events in January titled “Orwellian America.” “Orwellian America is a series of programs focused on government transparency and personal privacy in the digital age during the last two weeks of January. Events include a screening of “The Internet’s…