The Creative Freedom Tour at GW

If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…

The South African Project, a benefit performance featuring youth performers from the Bokamoso Youth Center of Winterveldt, South Africa. The rural township of Winterveldt, South Africa is plagued with serious challenges, including a 50% unemployment rate and an HIV/AIDS infection rate that affects 25% of the population; teen pregnancy and family violence; and other social…

Professor Alexander Kondakov A late addition to our calendar!  Next Thursday, Professor Alexander Kondakov of the European University at St. Petersburg will be a special guest in David Mitchell’s Literature of the Americas class.  This event is open to the public.  Thursday, November 17, 12:45-2 PM in Phillips Hall B156.    Disability and Queer-Sexuality in…

GW English, We are prose. Remember in High School when people gathered in groups that excluded you? Don’t let that happen again. The English Department is BOWING TO THE DEMANDS of its majors (specifically to an agitated group of upperclasspeople whom we very much like) and declaring that Thursday April 2 2009 will be our…

Please come to the English Department Colloquium featuring Professor José Buscaglia-Salgado “The Dissolution of Form: Metaphorical Subjectivity in Caribbean Mulataje and the Architecture of Coloniality” Friday, April 6th from noon until 2PM Duques Hall 251 Reception to follow, hosted by the English Department in Rome Hall 663 Professor Buscaglia-Salgado is the Director of the Program…