In results that surprised everyone me, our poll has declared that the Hippo mascot will LIVE. One hundred and six votes were received, forty-two for execution and sixty-four for preservation. That means 60% of our blog readers like the pudgy beast. Even Obama didn’t win by that kind of margin.
So … vive l’hippopotame! Now, would anyone like to design a new English Majors T-Shirt that makes use of him?
It’s that time of year, we know. We see it in your faces: worn out, sleep deprived, pale. We see how red your eyes are from peering at the computer screen, and that your fingers are turning into little nubs because you’ve been pounding at the keyboard. Your blood has more caffeine coursing through it…
On October 23 at 5 PM in the Marvin Center, we will hold our inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will present. Complete information is here. I urge you to come. We are trying to build a better sense of intellectual community at GW, especially for those of us…
The invention of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century played a major role in the creation of Renaissance culture and in the development of the modern world. Without the printing press, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution might not have spread throughout Europe, poem- and novel-writing might not have become viable professions,…
[illustration: from the Library of Congress’s rare books collection: The Book of Urizen by William Blake] GW alumnus Malcolm O’Hagan (class of 1966) has kindly arranged for a small group of GW students to have a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library of Congress, and the chance to admire up close some of its most precious…
The English Department is thinking of introducing a program through which a select number of English majors could earn a BA at the end of the senior year, then stay at GW for an additional year of study and to gain an MA. This program would enable students to earn an MA a year faster…
I know I talk and write about this issue a great deal: I am passionate about it, because it is so central to my department’s mission and future. The English Department has everything in place to be the envy of the Ivy League: excellent undergraduate majors, a world-class faculty whose research and creative work are…
