Tea and Mortality

The English Department is pleased to announced that Edward P. Jones will be teaching a special one credit course for a small number of GW students. English 193 (Studies in Contemporary Literature) will meet four Monday evenings in February from 6-7:30. Students will read four novels and discuss them with Mr. Jones: David Anthony Durham,…

Daria-Ann Martineau is the winner of a $500 prize for her poem “Orchids.” The English Department congratulates senior Daria-Ann Martineau, a speech and hearing major and creative writing minor, for her poem “Orchids,” which won this year’s Student Poetry Prize, awarded to the best poem submitted by a student at George Washington University. Martineau’s poem,…

[excellent photo by Josh Wolf]English major and department office favorite person Tarek Al-Hariri is featured in The Hatchet. The article is about the Rome Review, a new literary journal of great promise. And if you are a current English major and wonder how you too might become a “department office favorite person” like Tarek, let…

Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the opportunity to host visiting students or scholars who come to DC to take advantage of the resources at GW and in the city at large. Naglaa Mahmoud, a visiting student from Al Minya…

Beacon Press, 1993 The Feminist Press, 2011    The English Department cordially invites you to join us for a celebration of Prof. Faye Moskowtiz’s literary gem And the Bridge Is Love, a book of essays originally published in 1993 by Beacon Press and recently reissued by The Feminist Press. Prof. Moskowitz will be reading from…

Department alumnus Keith Feldman writes: I’m pleased to report that I write you from my new office at UC Berkeley, where I’ve just begun a tenure track position in comparative ethnic studies. As you might imagine, I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—by the opportunity to work in such a generative atmosphere. I was hired in part because…