TODAY: Shakespeare’s Birthday! Starting 2pm at Gelman terrace

The idea for Open Space came up after a department meeting earlier this semester when Professor David McAleavey noted that undergraduate poets had no public venue on GW to share their poems. Recent public poetry projects for National Poetry Month like “Rent-a-Poet” and the “Poem of the Day” series, which was organized by Professors Thea…

Louis Bayard will be giving a reading  Thursday January 31st at 7:30pm in the  Honors Town House (714 21st St NW). Bayard teaches Creative Writing here at the George Washington University and is the author of The School of Night, The Black Towers, The Pale Blue Eye, and other critically acclaimed novels. As a child, Professor…

Come hear Jonathan Lethem (author of Chronic City) and Stacey D’Erasmo (author of The Sky Below) participating in a PEN/Faulkner reading on September 25 at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The authors will be introduced by Professor Patricia Griffith. Come to the Folger again on October 26 where Professor Griffith will introduce Chimamanda Adichie (author of…

The English Department is happy to announce that a new university seminar we proposed has been funded. The Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (MEMS) proposal is one fruit of an effort the department is making to foster the study of early Britain within a transnational frame in our department. With resources like the Folger Shakespeare…

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…