The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg
English graduate students at GW are a busy and productive group. In addition to the usual–taking classes, studying for and taking graduate exams, writing master’s and PhD theses, teaching and TAing–they do a tremendous amount of work organizing social and academic activities. These include research discussion groups, dissertation reading groups, and the occasional EGSA night…
From the 8/27/09 Hatchet: Sedaris, Atwood will speak at Lisner Michael Chabon and Al Gore round out the venue’s fall lineup by Sarah Scire Senior News Editor Bestselling authors Margaret Atwood and David Sedaris have been added to the long list of celebrity authors appearing at Lisner Auditorium in the fall. Sedaris, the popular humor…
Join us on October 15th from 3-5pm to hear about two path-breaking graphic narratives on ethnic American experiences from WWII to the present. This Fall panel brings together scholars and practitioners who are innovatively representing race, citizenship, and immigration through the medium of comics. Professors Kavita Daiya and Patricia Chu will be moderating this event that…
Professor David L. Eng David L. Eng (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age Thursday, October 18, 4:45-6 Marvin Center 402-404 Details: Contact pattychu@gwu.edu David Eng Writes: This talk is drawn from my forthcoming book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke UP, 2018), coauthored with psychotherapist Shinhee Han….
Feel like you have missed all of the famous author readings this semester? Although there are only a few authors visiting GW in the next coming months (Margaret Atwood will be doing a dramatization of her latest novel The Year of the Flood at Lisner Auditorium this Friday, October 30th. Tickets are as low as…
Please join us for a two-day event on Cuba and its diaspora sponsored by the English Department with the assistance of American Studies and Africana Studies, under the auspices of the Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary English. Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance A Public Reading and Symposium October 8 and 9, 2009 Marvin…