The 2017 GW Digital Humanities Institute Symposium: “Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in the Digital World”

(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Kate Flint presents a cultural history of flash photography and race (April 16) Interested in the relationship between words and images? Artsy or literary? Think of yourself as both? Thanks to a generous gift by Sharyn Rosenblum to the English Department, as well as to the generosity of the Department of Fine Arts & Art…
Reading Distance: Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…
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K. Tyler Christensen The final event in Contemporary LGBT Literature, following Jordy Rosenberg’s visit on April 22 (details here), is GW English’s own K. Tyler Christensen! Join students in the class on April 28 at 7 PM for an evening with Tyler. This is the final in a series of four “live” public events…
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Feel like you have missed all of the famous author readings this semester? Although there are only a few authors visiting GW in the next coming months (Margaret Atwood will be doing a dramatization of her latest novel The Year of the Flood at Lisner Auditorium this Friday, October 30th. Tickets are as low as…