Summer Reading 1
We will soon announce a Big Lecture here at GW by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a founder of the discipline of disability studies.
Her new book Staring: How We Look is just out from Oxford University Press.
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From Staring
We know that you are going to see Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on Friday. We offer the following quotation from her brand new book Staring: How We Look to whet your appetite. Staring is profligate interest, stunned wonder, obsessive ocularity. The daily traffic reports capture staring’s disruptive potential with the term “rubbernecking,” a canny summation of our…
Faye Moskowitz’s ‘Jewish Literature Live’ Course in the Hatchet
From today’s Hatchet: Jewish literature lives by Ani MamourianHatchet Reporter For English professor Faye Moskowitz, putting students in contact with authors meant bridging the connection between reader and writer. Moskowitz teaches Jewish Literature Live, a new course that brings contemporary Jewish American authors to campus. Anya Ulinich will read from her novel “Petropolis” this Thursday,…
Graduating Seniors: Party With Us
The English Department will host a reception for graduating seniors on Saturday, 16 May from 1:30-3 p.m. in Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd Street, NW). We hope you can attend and will bring your family and friends to join in the celebration! Share on FacebookTweet
Green-Lewis and Soltan, Teaching Beauty
The Department of English offers its warm congratulations to faculty members Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan. Their coauthored book Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill has just been published by Palgrave. The book’s description: What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers…
Guess who is coming to campus on Monday March 23?
(and he will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, no less. Details to follow here) Share on FacebookTweet
Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz
Please join us for a book launch celebration José Esteban Muñoz Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English Literature Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity Thursday November 12 2 PMEnglish Department Seminar RoomRome Hall 771 Professor Muñoz will read from and discuss his new book. Champagne, sparkling cider, and snacks will be served….