Summer Reading 2
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi has a new book, Joseph’s Box.
Check out the website and add the book to your summer list.
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi has a new book, Joseph’s Box.
Check out the website and add the book to your summer list.
Alumni, students, parents, faculty and friends generously support the GW English Department through their philanthropy. In amounts ranging from $5 to $30,000, these contributions enable us to have famous writers visit campus, support faculty and undergraduate research, hold special events, and enrich the study and teaching of the humanities at GW. We’d like to recognize…
Starting this afternoon, thousands of writers will be gathering in DC for the annual conference of the Associated Writers & Writing Programs, headquartered this year at the Marriott Wardman Park in Woodley Park. The conference features readings from scores of writers, as well as opportunities for writers to network with editors, publishers, and each other….
2005 graduate Madhur Bansal provides the GW English blog with this biography: After graduating from GW in 2005, I served in the Americorps VISTA program for one year as a Development Assistant with a non-profit organization, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). SAALT’s mission is to increase civic participation among South Asian Americans and advocate…
Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m. Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…
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I’ve received a few emails about the post below, in which I suggested that the reason CCAS has difficulty retaining its doctoral students is simple economics: we do not support our PhD students with the same frequency or at the same level as the schools to which we compare ourselves. My experience is limited mainly…