The following individuals supported the English Department in December. We thank them for their generous support, especially in these difficult economic times.
Through its alliance with the Folger Shakespeare Library, the best archive of Shakespeare and Renaissance materials in the US, and one of the best in the world, GW is uniquely positioned to train researchers in early modern and medieval studies. Even Ivy League schools do not have these resources. Here is what we have already:…
Allegra Goodman Novelist Allegra Goodman will be reading at the Marvin Center Amptitheater at 7 p.m. on Thursday as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course. The class explores the works of a variety of contemporary Jewish-American authors and features them in class visits and public readings. Heralded as a “modern-day Jane…
The Department of English offers its warm congratulations to faculty members Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan. Their coauthored book Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill has just been published by Palgrave. The book’s description: What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers…
Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy We remain very excited about our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel DeWispelare, who is currently teaching Romanticism and Critical Methodologies. For Spring 2013, he has designed a brand new Dean’s Seminar, “Literacy and Literature.” Spread the word to those who are eligible–first-year CCAS students seeking a…
Most readers of this blog know that the GW English Department has been off to a great start this semester, with a range of successful events. If you follow us on Facebook (and if you don’t, you should!–check out how easy it is with the button on the right side of this page), you also…
Happy memories of springtime daffodils? Brooding lines about “The dew that flies/Suicidal“? Sugary fluff that cools the longing for wordplay? Creepy verbal portraiture? We love it all. That’s why the GW English Department is pleased to announce our first annual Student Poetry Contest. Anyone can enter, and the prize (generously donated by a departmental supporter)…
