“The Homesick Restaurant”
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam has a beautiful little story in the New York Times magazine entitled “The Homesick Restaurant.” Check it out.
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Upcoming Events to Ponder during the Snowpocaylpse of February 2010
So you’re snowed in from Friday through Sunday morning. What to do? Consider adding one of these upcoming events of interest to your calendar: The BIG READ, featuring Howard Jacobson, author of Kalooki Nights. Even if you haven’t finished the novel, and even if you weren’t one of the 200 lucky people who picked up…
Higher Education in Crisis?
Many of this blog’s readers will have heard about the Browne Report recently released in the UK. The report by Lord Browne reviews Britain’s higher education system and proposes sweeping changes in the ways that students’ educations are financed. If adopted–and there is wide agreement that it will be–the Browne Report will make higher education…
GW’s American Literature and Culture Organization (ALCO)
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/images/childlit.gif ALCO is the “American Literature and Culture Organization,” a group in which graduate students and faculty participate in discussions about language and culture from an Americanist perspective attentive to national, transnational, and hemispheric questions. The goal of ALCO is to open discussions across the various areas of study in GW’s English Department, as well…
Game, Set, MATCH.
Graduate students in GW’s English Department have launched a brand new theory reading group. With the start of classes, they are pleased to announce the first meeting of M.A.T.C.H. (Mobilizing an Active Theory Community in the Humanities), which will be from 5pm to 6pm on Thursday, September 13th. The meeting will commence in the Rome…
New blog: Wynken de Worde
Check out the new blog by Sarah Werner, Wynken de Worde. The undergraduate program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dr. Werner teaches our Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar. Her blog is well worth bookmarking or adding to your RSS feed. Share on FacebookTweet
Prof. McRuer’s Students to Hold Symposium Saturday
Attendees at this year’s Mezipatra (which means “mezzanine” in Czech).Can you find any of the GWU students? Once again this year, GWU students had the unique opportunity to join Prof. Robert McRuer in attending Mezipatra, the Czech Queer Film Festival The students in the class will be presenting their work at a one-day symposium Saturday,…