The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The GW English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Present Elliot Ackerman. Elliot Ackerman is a National Book Award Finalist. His novels include Red Dress in Black & White and Waiting for Eden. His memoir is Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine…
Here is the tentative schedule: FALL 2008 readings (not including Jenny2 or student open readings): Thurs., Sept. 18 DC Poetry celebration, Gelman Special Collections, 6:30-9:00, Gelman 206 [Not an English Dept. event, but still a poetry reading, of sorts – with lots of musical accompaniment] Thurs., Sept. 25 Mary Morrissy (2008-09 JMM Writer), 8:15 PM,…
The GWU English Department & The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series invite you to a reading by Scott Simon. NPR’s Scott Simon The event will be held: Thursday, October 29th 7:30 PM Gelman Library Room 702 Scott Simon is known as a broadcast journalist. He is, after all, the award-winning host of NPR’s Weekend Edition…
Professor Simon Gikandi Simon Gikandi’s 2011 Slavery and the Culture of Taste From October 26-31, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Simon Gikandi as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). He is…
Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural studies, critical theory, and literary analysis. This event was organized by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare, who (among other professors in the department) has taught our course on Critical Methods. We hope this will be…
Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard’s schedule now requires her to stay in Los Angeles for rehearsals of four episodes of Two Broke Girls. It will be great to see her on the show, but it unfortunately means that her appearance is cancelled for…