Summer Reading 2

The English Department congratulates Professor Robert McRuer, whose book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability has been awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award. This award is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Language Association. The judge’s report on Crip Theory declares: The members of the Committee were…

Author Rebecca Goldstein’s reading scheduled for 6:30 Tuesday night in the Marvin Center has been canceled because of weather. Also, the first meeting of Howard Jacobson’s 1-credit seminar, scheduled for 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, has been canceled. The class will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 16, as usual, and arrangements will be made to make up…

Brian Becker, one of my favorite former students, writes: I came to Chicago directly after graduation to get an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, which wrapped up in 2006, and have since been working in a number of capacities for The Princeton Review–most recently as a trainer of incoming teachers for the…

As you know, award winning author Edward P Jones is our first Wang Professor of Contemporary Literature. He will be in residence in the English Department during the entire spring semester. Mr. Jones is a quirky, brilliant man. His novels and short stories are destined to be read for many years into the future. We…

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE The blog has been going through a lot of changes lately, but one part (or person) of it remains the same. Tess Malone, your trusty Communications Liaison Intern, is still here. I am eager to spend another semester interviewing your favorite professors and attending exciting events on campus and throughout DC. However,…

Lots of us remember last year’s visit to GW of English novelist Howard Jacobson, our 3rd British Council U.K. Writer-in-Residence, and author of the witty and wonderful Kalooki Nights. Well, the “Jewish Jane Austen” (or, as he might prefer, “English Woody Allen”) has a new novel, The Finkler Question, recently published in Britain. Click here…