UPDATED: Jewish Literature Live is Back: Spring 2015 Schedule
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Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 |
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Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 |
A PSA from one of GW’s literary magazines: Le Culte du Moi Winter Issue Launch Party Wednesday, February 4th @ 7pm Mitchell Hall Theatre Free and open to the public Get a free copy of the Winter 2008 issue, share your writings at an open mic, and enjoy French food. We’re not pretentious. We’re post-tentious….
Still from Floating Skyscrapers (2013), Tomasz Wasilewski, dir. Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 9, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English 3980W) and “Intro to LGBT Studies”…
Although all of the Inauguration Festivities are likely in their own way to be worth attending, allow me to call your attention to two that you will not want to miss, both of them on Wednesday November 14. 1. “Cultural Mobility: The Travels of Shakespeare’s Cardenio” by Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English, Harvard University. In…
Jordy Rosenberg Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature April 22 at 7 PM for a reading with Jordy Rosenberg. This is the third in a series of “live” public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite here and you will receive Zoom links both the day…
After Chair of the English Department Jeffrey J. Cohen introduced GWU President Steven Knapp who introduced author Edward P. Jones, Jones read two selections from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World: From Chapter 5, the story of Sherif John Skiffington attempting to quell the fears of his sister-in-law Clara Martin. This roughly corresponds…
NADEEM ASLAM Feb. 1-29: British Council USA/Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence at GW: U.K. novelist, Nadeem Aslam (author of MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS and SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS). In addition to visiting classes, leading a 700-series 1-credit one-month reading course, etc., Nadeem will participate in three public appearances at GW: Feb. 7 — 7…