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The English Department is happy to be a co-sponsor of a reading/presentation by Ruth Franklin, author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, at the DC Jewish Community Center on Tuesday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m. The reading is part of the DC JCC’s Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival,…

Renowned Scots-Asian writer Suhayl Saadi will be the second GW-British Council Writer in Residence. Born in Beverly, East Yorkshire, and raised in Glasgow, Saadi is best known as the author of the novel Psychoraag: Taking place during the six hours of a radio broadcast, PSYCHORAAG tells the mythic, yet utterly modern tale of Zaf, a…

From a superb review of Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare in the TLS: Share on FacebookTweet

Rajiv Menon writes of the course he took with British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi: My experience with the first British Council in Residence reading course was overwhelmingly positive, and when I learned of the second opportunity to participate in the class, I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted to take…

Several faculty members in the English department also serve on the Judaic Studies Committee. We would like to bring this important conference to your attention. The Judaic Studies Program at the George Washington UniversityInvites You to a Conference The Future of Zionism: Looking at Israel in the 21st Century Keynote Lecture by Tom Segev“1967: Israel,…

I hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s festivities as much as I did … and I hope that you are not suffering from the same difficulties in transitioning back to the workaday week. If you’d like a glimpse of what inauguration looked like to me and my son, you are welcome to browse my photos (you…