Student Blogs
Here are two blogs by current GW students: one, two. Here is one from a former GW English major.
Are there more? What else do GW English Blog readers read, and write?
Here are two blogs by current GW students: one, two. Here is one from a former GW English major.
Are there more? What else do GW English Blog readers read, and write?
Max Ticktin, Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the George Washington University, is the scholar in residence at Adas Israel March 20-22. He will be introduced by the English Department’s own Faye Moskowitz. Information here, or click on the image at left. Free. Share on FacebookTweet
Stepping into Gregory Pardlo’s office is an odd, but charming combination of thrift store and art museum. Picasso adorns the wall as well as a salvaged window screen from Brooklyn. They are not just mere decorations, but help to explain some the fundamentals of GW’s newest creative writing professor. For Pardlo is not just a…
English Major Jessica Chace received a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Like GW’s Luther Rice fellowships, the Gamow Fellowship supports an undergraduate researcher in ways that allow her or him to work closely with a Faculty Mentor. The working title of Jessica’s research project is “The Humor Defense: Laughter as Therapy in Ken…
Don’t miss this beautifully composed reflection on small daily pleasures and “death-reminders” in the Professor Margaret Soltan‘s blog, University Diaries. Share on FacebookTweet
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Yesterday’s Plotzfest was a huge success. More than 100 people came out to hear our six wonderful speakers–Carolyn Betensky, Richard Flynn, Margaret Higgonet, Uli Knoepflmacher, John Plotz, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan–and celebrate Prof. Judith Plotz’s long and productive career. We heard papers about the “happy” and “unhappy in Victorian literature (Betensky), Randall Jarrell’s work for…