Student Blogs

The English Department congratulates Bruce MacKinnon on the publication of his poem “The Bees,” published in the February issue of Poetry. Bruce’s collection of poems, Mystery Schools, was also just favorably reviewed in The Literary Review. Bruce teaches poetry in our Creative Writing program. We congratulate him for his achievements. The Bees One day the…

I’m happy to introduce our new Student Blogger, Paula Mejia, Class of 2013. A prospective double English/CW major, Paula will soon be blogging regularly. Here’s what she writes about herself: I hail from Houston, Texas. Since childhood, I’ve had the opportunity to spend many lazy summer afternoons reading, writing, and breathing in my surroundings. My…

Do not miss Art Spiegelman tonight at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium (SMPA). Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers making presentations at GW through the “Jewish Literature Live” program. The series was generously funded by David Bruce Smith. Share on FacebookTweet

One day Thomas Mallon looked out his office window in Rome Hall and had a strange sense of déja vu. “I look out into the apartment of one of my characters,” he said. Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers was set in 1950s DC, at which point the dorm West End was an apartment where he placed…

We will be offering a one credit, four evening course with our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi. You will have the chance to read three of his favorite novels and discuss them with him: Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker; How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman; and This Other…

Both these classes are taught by Professor Jennifer James. 185. 10 TR 12.45-2Slavery, Memory and History in Black Women’s WritingThis course explores how black women’s literature of the 20th and 21st century recalls and revises the memory and history of slavery in the Carribean and the U.S. The readings will range from fiction and memoir…