To All Current English Majors
The faculty of the department of English wish you the best of luck as you work on your final papers and examinations.
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Three Writers to Join Creative Writing Faculty this Semester
The English Department is very happy to welcome three new writers to the ranks of our Creative Writing faculty. All will be joining us this semester to teach our popular ENGL 1210 (formerly ENGL 81), Introduction to Creative Writing. LOUIS BAYARD is a graduate of Princeton and Northwestern universities. His novels include The Pale Blue…
Your Homework Assignment for This Weekend
1. Go to this film, and thereby support GW English alumnus Jason Filardi. 2. Enjoy with some popcorn. 3. Tell your professor on Monday that the reason you didn’t get all your reading done is that the department chair commanded you to see an enjoyable film with popcorn on the side, and can you please…
Alumnus Update: Keith Feldman
Department alumnus Keith Feldman writes: I’m pleased to report that I write you from my new office at UC Berkeley, where I’ve just begun a tenure track position in comparative ethnic studies. As you might imagine, I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—by the opportunity to work in such a generative atmosphere. I was hired in part because…
Michael Chabon Tapped to Revise Screenplay: Coincidence or Foreshadowing?
If you were paying close attention during Michael Chabon’s public reading last month, you would have caught a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Gods of Mars in the second story he read, “First First Father.” In the story, Chabon compared his experience to the unknowability of a nine color spectrum, which is experienced…
Summer Reading 2
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi has a new book, Joseph’s Box. Check out the website and add the book to your summer list. Share on FacebookTweet