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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE What is a joke? More specifically, what is a Jewish joke? I have a feeling the answer would vary depending on who you were talking to. The answers the Marx Brothers would give you would likely be entirely different than the answer Woody Allen would have. However Howard Jacobson’s idea of a…

Spring 2012 will mark the fourth iteration of Jewish Literature Live, the unique course in which students read the works by writers who then visit their classroom for an intimate discussion. As before, each author visiting campus will give a free public reading. This year, the inimitable Prof. Faye Moskowitz has assembled a line-up of writers…

Gelman Library Exhibit Opening: “A Kind of Map of Life”: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones Stop by Café G on the first floor of Gelman Library to see “A Kind of Map of Life”: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones, a new exhibit that explores the connections between Jones’ work and the history of…

ENGL 1320W, Literature of the Americas, being taught this spring by Department Chair Prof. Gayle Wald, offers students a multicultural, transnational introduction to American literature. One of our goals is to understand “America” in relation to the elsewheres it has always contained, and to ask questions about America itself. Students read works by Langston Hughes,…

This past fall saw the inaugural class of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar. Focused on “Books and Early Modern Culture,” the seminar is the first offering of the new Undergraduate Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The seminar was developed with the support of the Dean’s office of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences…