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Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
You are cordially invited to the book launch event in celebration of “Race” (Routledge New Critical Idiom series). The book will be released on February 2, 2019. Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Critical-Idiom-Martin-Orkin-dp-1138904694/dp/1138904694/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= A light dinner reception will be from 5:30 – 6:00 PM, with food available on a first come, first serve basis. This event is open to the…
Emancipation Day Lecture April 15: Robert S. Levine
Eventbrite RSVP. Please circulate. Please join the Africana Studies Program for The George Washington University’s Annual DC Emancipation Day Lecture “Frederick Douglass’s Tales of Abraham Lincoln” Robert S. Levine Professor of English, The University of Maryland General Editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature Drawing from his forthcoming book, The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard, 2016), Levine will…
English 3980 Students to Hold Public Symposium Saturday
Transnational Queer Film Studies students and Professor Karen Tongson of USC in Prague Photo by Robert McRuer Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall. This was the seventh instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to…
MG Lord in the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series
MG Lord is a cultural critic and writer. Her books include Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and Astroturf: The Private Life of Rocket Science, among other publications. She also worked as a political cartoonist for Newsday. She is Assistant Professor of the practice of English at University of Southern California. Join us for her reading December…
Representation, Where Art Though? Shakespeare and Race, September 26
Join us for a conversation about the representation of BIPOC in Shakespeare’s work and productions. Saturday, September 26th, 2020 from 3:00pm – 4:30pm Eastern Time (2 – 3:30 pm Central Time) The free event is hosted by the Dallas Public Library and features three speakers: GWU English professor Alexa Alice Joubin (whose book Race examines…
Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Susan Nussbaum at GW October 6
PEN/Bellweather Prize Winner Susan Nussbaum Our first event in the Private Bodies/Public Encounters series will occur on Monday, October 6 from 7-9 PM in 309 Marvin Center. The event features novelist and playwright, Susan Nussbaum, from Chicago. Susan’s novel, “Good Kings Bad Kings”, details the lives and struggles of a multi-racial group of disabled youth institutionalized at the…
