“Touching the Past” Symposium Friday

As Jeffrey previously observed, GWU will be experiencing another inauguration tomorrow: that of the university’s first Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Literature. I can only hope that Mr. Jones, with his hand firm upon The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, does not flub the swearing in. With another new beginning at hand, it is…

Hello everybody, my name is Rajiv Menon and I am the English department’s new communications liaison. I am a junior, majoring in English and International Affairs. In addition to working with the English department, I also intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and tutor at GW’s writing center. Also, in addition to writing…

English Departmental Annual Report Form (AY 06-07)Prepared by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Chair Major Accomplishments This academic year marked a profound moment of change for the English Department. Senior faculty who had long run the department (and had run it very well) saw the results of some canny hiring in the past as new faculty stepped…

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…

In 2006 I was elected by my colleagues to serve a three year term as chair of the English Department. Doing so has been an honor, and a privilege. I know that sounds cliché, but I make the statement with feeling and without irony. I have the best colleagues, we teach the brightest and most…

Looking into Tim Johnston’s smoky gray eyes, one finds no presumption lurking there. His answers are direct, and he pauses for new questions; his voice is clear and his manner is pleasant. Johnston is the new Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Fellow. Profiling a writer is unlike straight biography for, say, a firefighter. There’s the added…