The English Department is sponsoring a contest to design a T-shirt. Submit your (funny) phrase or design idea to chair@gwu.edu
If your phrase or design is selected, you win a free T-shirt, and all the glory appertaining thereto.
The winner of the T-shirt contest will be announced at our “Futures of the Field: The English Major in the 21st-Century” colloquium on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m., in Marvin 307.
We hope to see you there.
On Feb. 24, the English department cosponsored an event with the Office of the President honoring new Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore, who assumed the position in July after the retirement of GW Prof. Emerita Gail Kern Paster. Pres. Knapp and Diane Knapp opened the F Street House to about three dozen invitees, including…
Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 PM at the George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets (City View Room, 7th Floor). More information about Suhayl Saadi may be found here at the British Council…
If you have been to a GW basketball game or a rained-out Fall Fest, you probably recognize the name Smith. “Smith” might be the most common surname in the United States, but it also has an illustrious history at GW. The Smith Center is named after D.C. real estate developer and GWU benefactor Charles E….
… but if you missed out and are not so benighted that you have no interest in reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones come to the English Department main office (Academic Center, Rome Hall 760) right away. We have a few copies that we are willing to part with. They even come with…
Reflection on Suhayl Saadi Course Contemporary Literature Sadaf Padder As soon I received news of another author being brought to campus as a GW-British Council Writer in Residence, I jumped at the opportunity to be a participant of the course. I had heard of the Nadeem Aslam course last year too late to sign up…
The Judaic Studies Program at GW is pleased to announce that it will give awards of up to $2,000 each to 3 undergraduate students for travel to Israel in the 2008-09 academic year due to a generous grant from the Gudelsky Foundation. The awards will be given to students who demonstrate that travel to Israel…
