Students as Lemmings?
Read this. Then tell me the counter-example isn’t English majors. Who could be less lemming-like? They are practically flamingoes. Or platypi.
Read this. Then tell me the counter-example isn’t English majors. Who could be less lemming-like? They are practically flamingoes. Or platypi.
The GW English Department congratulates alumnus Jason Filardi on the premiere of his new film 17 Again. Jason is currently teaching a screenwriting course for 15 lucky GW undergraduates. He is also an incredibly nice guy who happens to be a natural in the classroom. Good luck with the film, Jason! Share on FacebookTweet
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE A few years ago Ariel Sabar quit his day job as an award winning journalist in order to work on a book. The shift from journalism to book writing was a challenge, but even more challenging was the subject of his book My Father’s Paradise, his father and his father’s history as…
Forget that new three-tiered price plan from iTunes. Get your music free from Gelman Library. Humanities Librarian Cathy Eisenhower writes: The Library pays for it, but you can stream it for free through your desktop and create playlists–for yourself and/or your students. I’ve been listening to spoken word recordings in Smithsonian Global Sound this afternoon…
Hello, I’m Kirk Hausmann Larsen. Even more, I’m the new student blogger.You might be asking yourself: “New student blogger? I didn’t know there was an old student blogger!” “What’s all this, then?” “Even more? More than what?!” “Why did he include his middle name? The pomp!” “A numbered list? Does he think I have all…
Literary Capital, Prof. Chris Sten‘s collection of “Washington writing” appears from University of Georgia Press later this week. Currently, the book is featured in a two-page spread in the press’s spring/summer 2011 catalog! Hailed as “an indispensable guide to the literature, culture, and history of Washington, DC,” Literary Capital gathers historical writing focused on politics…
Harvard University possesses a department with the verbose designation “English and American Literature and Language.” At a recent faculty meeting, Professor James Engell spoke on behalf of his faculty colleagues and moved that this name be changed to “Department of English.” The rationale for this transformation has clearly been plagiarized from the GW Department of…