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We will soon announce a Big Lecture here at GW by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a founder of the discipline of disability studies. Her new book Staring: How We Look is just out from Oxford University Press. Share on FacebookTweet

Congratulations to Professor Tara Wallace, who published two essays this summer: ‘Reading the Metropole: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of Hindoo Rajah’ in Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750 to 1832 (Ashgate 2009): 131-142; ‘Thinking Globally: The Talisman and The Surgeon’s Daughter’ in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan…

If you were paying close attention during Michael Chabon’s public reading last month, you would have caught a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Gods of Mars in the second story he read, “First First Father.” In the story, Chabon compared his experience to the unknowability of a nine color spectrum, which is experienced…

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,…

Jennifer Nguyen is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Contest Each year, the English department awards a variety of student prizes for achievement in creative writing. This year, senior Jennifer Nguyen is the winner of the Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Candy.” The judges were Profs. Jane Shore, Mary-Sherman Willis, and David McAleavey….

JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE It may seem hard to believe, but your beloved blogger (at least I hope I am beloved) was not always so studious and interested in books (read infiltrating the English department). Back in the day, I was just another five year old who could not recite the alphabet or tie her shoes….