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This is an image that has been circulating online since last week, when The New Yorker magazine posted it on its blog. [Click here for a link to the White House Flickr site, where you can see a huge image of the same.] As an English professor and as someone who loves to be edited…

Anya Ulinich, author of Petropolis will be reading from her work on campus, Thursday, March 5th in the Marvin Center Third Floor Amphitheater, 8:00-9:30PM. The National Book Foundation, 5 under 35, calls her work “…particularly exciting and among the best of a new generation of writers.” Gary Shteyngart says of Ulinich’s protagonist, “Sasha Goldberg is…

Edward P. Jones introduces Michael ChabonMonday March 23Chabon will read from his works, be interviewed live by Professor Faye Moskowitz, and sign copies of his books7 PMJack Morton AuditoriumSchool of Media and Public Affairs, GW Free and open to all who would like to attend, but seating is limited. Share on FacebookTweet

Tom Mallon’s books on display at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Last week Prof. Thomas Mallon was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with its Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, a $10,000 prize “given annually to single out recent prose that merits recognition for the quality of its style.” Prof….

If you’ve donated money to the department over the past year, you are already on our mailing list (your name should also appear in the “Department Supporters” box to the right: thank you for your generosity! We couldn’t do much of what we undertake without your support). Early in the fall you will receive our…

Our sincere apologies for the fact that our tea and sherry swilling party was cut short by the evacuation of the Academic Center due to a suspicious package. Alumni will be heartened to know that six brave faculty members endured the long wait for re-entry to Rome Hall, then imbibed the remaining sherry … and…