Tom Mallon @ Politics and Prose

We will soon announce a Big Lecture here at GW by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a founder of the discipline of disability studies. Her new book Staring: How We Look is just out from Oxford University Press. Share on FacebookTweet

From Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 104 class comes this poem from sophomore Amelia Trask. Milky Waythe night is strungwith storm clouds,dark stained black in blots,edges dissolving into the wet. within four walls,the closeness ofpen-tipped stipples,contraction of muscle, theflushing of Mars reddened,braided skin, your fingers kissedwith familiar swirls: the Milky Way printed,pressed against me. outside the…

See this stack of books? English Honors students read them all … two at a time. Well, not really. But it’s a nice thought. I had a professor in college who had a photographic memory (really). In one class, he began reading Moby Dick and then closed the book and continued to “read.” For about…

Earlier this morning I directed your attention to one article from The Hatchet. Now let me call your attention to another, in which it is revealed that the chair of the Sociology Department is also a crime busting superhero. Note to all English Department faculty, students, and alumni: you will never read an article in…

With major reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere, it would be an understatement to say that Professor Thomas Mallon‘s latest novel, Watergate, is getting lots of attention.  On Wednesday, September 12, from 6-8 PM, a special event will be held for GW Alumni and others interested in hearing Professor Mallon read…

English major Joe Mancinik with Prof. Toni Morrison Prior to her appearance at Lisner Auditorium Wednesday night, our English Department blogger Joe Mancinik, along with a few other lucky English majors, sat down for a dinner and conversation with legendary writer, teacher, and intellectual Toni Morrison. This piece is about the experience. She speaks softly,…