The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase
Associate Professor of History Diane Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative, will give opening remarks
Associate Professor of History Diane Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative, will give opening remarks
Instruction and Reference Librarian Tolonda Henderson has sent us the following entry about her upcoming workshop on Harry Potter, this Tuesday at 4 PM in Gelman: One of the most basic ways we organize books is by fiction and non-fiction. My detective novels and sci-fi fantasy books live across my apartment from my textbooks from…
Sandra Bernhard, star of stage, screen and television, is now appearing in her acclaimed “Without You, I’m Nothing” at Theatre J. She will be visiting Faye Moskowitz’s class at 1:30 on Thursday, September 18. At 2:00 she’ll do a Meet and Greet for faculty and students in Rome Hall 771 (English Department seminar room). Share…
The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman. Elliot Ackerman is a National Book Award Finalist. His novels include Red Dress in Black & White and Waiting for Eden. His memoir is Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine…
The syllabi are in, and there’s definitely something stormy and Shakespearean coming our way! That’s right, it is not in error that William Shakespeare’s The Tempest appears on the syllabus of so many classes this semester. On the contrary, it’s a conscious, calculated effort on the part of Profs. Jeffrey Cohen and Jennifer James to…
October and early November are chock-a-block with English department or English-affiliated programming. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events. October 4: E. Patrick Johnson The Northwestern University Professor and performer E. Patrick Johnson visits GW during the run of his critically acclaimed one-man show “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” at Arlington’s…
On Saturday, September 27, GW English is convening an afternoon symposium with six of our illustrious alums to talk about the many career paths available to students majoring in English. Join us for a conversation and reception as we hear from a speechwriter, a journalist, a dancer and choreographer, a filmmaker, an educator, and a…