Summer Reading: Earth

We at GW English hope that your Thanksgiving Break is a restful one surrounded by loved ones … and perhaps curled up with some of those books you’ve been wanting to read!  We’ll see you next week. Share on FacebookTweet

Doing Shakespeare While Black? By Alexa Alice Joubin In Robeson’s Footsteps: Black and Asian Shakespeare Now,  a conference organized by the University of Warwick, January 15, 2016.  Race is an uncomfortable but important topic in our age of globalization. In the art and entertainment industry, race is both visible and invisible in various forms of embodiment….

Disrupting DH Roundtable. Photo credit: M.W. Bychowski. The GW Digital Humanities Symposium: DISRUPTING DH took place in the Jack Morton Auditorium on Friday, January 30, 2015 9am – 4pm. The event was organized by Jonathan Hsy, Founding Co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute (the other DHI Founding Co-Director Alexa Alice Joubin is currently away on a…

If you are a close reader of this blog, you’ve likely noticed that I’ve been posting an awful lot lately.  I suppose it is time to finally come out of the closet: I am indeed the new chair of the English Department at the George Washington University.  I have been happy to be part of…

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size    But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips,    The stride of my step,    The curl of my lips.    I’m…

I first encountered Ogden Nash’s Giant Baby Panda poem settled like a gem in Marianne Moore’s 1944 essay “Feeling in Precision.” In the essay, Moore writes: “Voltaire objected to those who said in enigmas what others had said naturally, and we agree; yet we must have the courage of our peculiarities. What would become of…