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There are certain things that seem to only occur in literature: personification, metaphor, allusion. However reoccurring themes can appear in real life too as Professor James Miller knows well. This is particularly true in relation to his latest book Moments of Scottsboro: The Scottsboro Case and American Culture. The project started in the late 1990s…

Don’t miss your chance to study the history of the book at the Folger. Applications due March 10. More information here. Share on FacebookTweet

While the blog took a hiatus over Winter Break, that did not mean those affiliated with the GW English Department also took time off. Instead our faculty and students started off 2010 with three new publications!Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a former Ph.D student, just published her work of historical fiction, Wench. Undergraduate Tarek Al-Hariri’s work was featured…

In connection with the presence of novelist Edward P. Jones on campus this semester, English Department graduate students Constance Woodard and Elizabeth Pitman and Gelman librarian Jennifer Kinniff have mounted a new exhibit in Gelman Library. The exhibit is titled A Kind of Map of Life: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones and it explores…

Undergraduates who declare their English major on July 1 2008 or later will progress towards the degree under the following requirements. The previous requirements remain in effect for anyone who declared the major before July 1. No changes have been made to the major’s prerequisites or to the total number of courses required for the…

Come to a discussion of Edward Jones’s The Known WorldIt’s the second session of THE BIG READ. Interested? Just show up! Thursday, March 26th at 4-5:30. FACULTY PANEL with presentations by Professors Catherine Allen (Anthropology), Herman Carrillo (Creative Writing), David DeGrazia (Philosophy), Melani McAllister (American Studies), and Andrew Smith (Classics). This session is designed especially…