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Professors Daniel Saalfeld and Daniel DeWispelare  Uproarious Laughter Decked the Halls Smiles All Around, Ready to Ring in a New Year Katie and Eve, this semester’s fabulous Work-Study Students Professor DeWispelare with Department Operations Manager Constance Kibler Professors Patricia Chu, Evelyn Schreiber, and Ormond Seavey Graduate Students Theodora Danylevich and Elizabeth Pittman Professor Holly Dugan…

The English Department was one of the primary sponsors for “Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies across the Curriculum,” held in the Marvin Center February 22-23, 2007. The event opened with a selection of disability film shorts from around the world hosted by prominent disability studies scholars and filmmakers David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder of the University…

[UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information will be forthcoming!] Composing Disability returns to George Washington University this semester with a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability.  The six volumes focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth…

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…

The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is being held by South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko. The World Literature Residency brings writers from across the globe to GW to lecture, read from their works, and visit undergraduate classes. Writers typically remain…