Tea and Mortality

The trompe-l’oeil cover of Tom Mallon’s new novel. GW Today published a lovely piece about Thomas Mallon’s new novel Watergate, which also recently got a stellar review in Washingtonian. And more enthusiastic press is sure to follow. Watch this space! Share on FacebookTweet

The last Medieval and Early Modern Seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, November 30th from 9-11 AM in Rome 771. Jehangir Malegam (GW History) will be presenting his paper entitled: No Peace for the Wicked: Conflicting Visions of Peacemaking in an Eleventh-Century Monastic Narrative As usual, please RSVP to me to receive…

An “endowed chair” is a professorship awarded as an ultimate honor to a scholar and teacher. We don’t have any in the English department, but hope to possess one some day. Endowing a chair is as easy as writing a check for two and a half million dollars. In case you have that kind of…

The following arrives from Professor Gayle Wald. One of our best teachers, Professor Wald is an expert in American and African-American literature, as well as music and cultural studies. She is also the Deputy Chair of the department and the chair of our Planning and Development Committee. Professor Wald is the author of Shout, Sister,…

It was my honor to serve as the Faculty Speaker at Saturday’s CCAS Celebration, the prelude to commencement. You may read the Hatchet account of the day here, and my more personal ruminations here. Share on FacebookTweet

Joseph Fisher and Brian Flota, who describe themselves as “surely two of the department’s most handsome students,” are collaborating on a collection of essays entitled “Catastrophe and the Cure”: The Politics of Post-9/11 Music. Their call for papers reads in part: In current debates about the War in Iraq, it has become commonplace for politicians…