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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE The blog has been going through a lot of changes lately, but one part (or person) of it remains the same. Tess Malone, your trusty Communications Liaison Intern, is still here. I am eager to spend another semester interviewing your favorite professors and attending exciting events on campus and throughout DC. However,…

GWU’s Jewish Literature Live course (taught by Prof. Faye Moskowitz) and GW’s collaboration with the British Council on its U.K. Writer-in-Residence Program converge for one afternoon only: Friday February 26, 2-4 p.m., Rome Hall 352. What do we mean today when we say “Jewish writing”? Do we mean writers who identify as Jews? Do we…

to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to  Prof. Thomas Mallon, winner of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $10,000 award is for a writer “whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose…

Well, not just attends … she also explicates and converses. Event information below. What’s On at the Folger Keeping Up Appearances Folger Theatre: The School for Scandal In Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic masterwork, things are not what they seem. As director Richard Clifford notes, “People seem greater than they are as the veneer of respectability…

The GW English Department congratulates alumnus Jason Filardi on the premiere of his new film 17 Again. Jason is currently teaching a screenwriting course for 15 lucky GW undergraduates. He is also an incredibly nice guy who happens to be a natural in the classroom. Good luck with the film, Jason! Share on FacebookTweet

You may have seen senior Anya Firestone on the Dangerous Liaisons posters throughout campus a month ago. Or perhaps you have seen the fashionista in the flesh standing out in her heels and dress in a sea of flannel. However, this summer you will find Firestone in Paris, France. Firestone will be graduating this month,…