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From Edward P. Jones, “The Known World”
Now that we have officially announced that Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will be our first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. The Known World follows the complicated history that unfolds around a Virginia plantation, owned…
Working During the Recession: Natasha Simons’s Experience with the Job Market
Natasha Simons can read 700 words per minute, cites her final paper for Jeffrey Cohen’s Chaucer course as one of greatest accomplishments as an undergraduate, had a 3.8 GPA., and had two and a half years of publishing internships. Naturally one would expect a woman as talented and experienced as her to get a job…
Margaret Soltan Blogs the NCAA
Professor Margaret Soltan has just returned from Nashville, where she covered the annual convention of the NCAA for the online newspaper Inside Higher Education. Soltan, who attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was delighted to be a member of the press corps, and especially delighted to take part in a press conference, during which…
Alumni Weekend Open House
If you are an alumnus of the English Department and will be attending the Alumni Reunion Weekend, please stop by the English Department on Friday September 26 from 3-5 PM for our open house. We look forward to welcoming you back! Share on FacebookTweet
Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize
We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet
Congratulations to our new PhDs!
I hope you will all join me in congratulating our new PhDs-all successfully defended their dissertations in the last couple of weeks. They are: Michelle Beissel-Heath, Matt Fullerty, Cathy Hamann, Almila Ozdek, Myra Remigio, and Niles Tomlinson. Well done, everyone! Tara Ghoshal WallaceAssociate Professor of EnglishDirector of Graduate Studies Share on FacebookTweet