“Touching the Past” Symposium Friday

Please stop by the English Department office (Rome Hall 760) for tea, cookies, and sherry. If you are a current student, you are welcome to stop by for tea and cookies. We are legally obligated to slap your hand HARD if you reach for the sherry. Share on FacebookTweet

We’ve had trouble getting these course descriptions posted to our website, so we’re putting them here. English Course Descriptions – Spring 2011 (updated 11/15/2010) Dean’s Seminars 14905 0801.10 Cuba and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism Professor Tony Lopez GCR: Humanities WF 9:35-10:50 OLD Course Number: 801 This seminar explores representations of Cuba in relation to…

Dear English majors: A number of you have inquired about the deadline for applications to the English Honors program. I just wanted to give you all a quick update about the program, which is currently undergoing a period of reconstruction. Because the deadline for applications in previous years was the October of juniors’ fall semester,…

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Dennis Kennedy, a distinguished scholar working on performance and cultural studies will be visiting GW. On Monday, November 12, from 1-2 pm, in Rome Hall 771, Dr. Kennedy will be presenting an illustrated lecture on “The Culture of the Spectator.” Currently Beckett Professor of Drama Emeritus in Trinity College Dublin, Kennedy will consider examples from sports,…

Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m.   Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City.    Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…