Tammy Greenwood-Stewart Reads from her New Novel, Two Rivers

The author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Summerland, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — and MORE — will read from his work and then be interviewed live by Professor Faye Moskowitz. Michael Chabon will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, GW’s first Wang Professor of Contemporary Literature….

Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the  2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings!  Friday, February 12th from   9 AM- 6:30 PM  Gelman 219   This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…

Professor Simon Gikandi Simon Gikandi’s 2011 Slavery and the Culture of Taste From October 26-31, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Simon Gikandi as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence.  Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). He is…

Lisa Zeidner Lisa Zeidner, the critically acclaimed author of Layover and Love Bomb, will be visiting GW on January 24th! Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels as well as two books of poetry.  She teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Zeidner is the first author in a series this spring at GW,…

It was a cold and wet, absolutely miserable day. This could be the start to a novel, but definitely not a good start to your day. Nevertheless, I and thousands of others crowded the metro to get to the National Mall for the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival yesterday. Yet there was a reason…

This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.  Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM.  The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…