We’re Screening A Line Has Shattered Mon. March 24th
– Lisa Jarnot, Poet and author of Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus (University of California Press, 2012)
GW MEMSI, the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, promotes and provides a venue for intellectual inquiry and debate for faculty and students. Headed by English Prof. Jeffrey Cohen, MEMSI sponsors a number of yearly events–including some geared toward the wider community of students and scholars. Here are two upcoming MEMSI events of particular interest:…
Attendant with Pearls: Abolition, Portraiture, Agency, and the Properties of Benevolence is the topic of this year’s Wang Endowment Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Patricia Matthew. All are welcome!
Creative Writing and Africana Studies present media storyteller, Nyssa Chow, Wednesday, October 17th at 6:30 pm in Gelman 702. Share on FacebookTweet
SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING WORKSHOP Join us this Friday Oct 18 at 2 pm in Gelman Library 302 Open to All GW Students Publishing advice and perspectives How to locate publishing venues: traditional, non-traditional, open access Preparing to publish: how the library can help Research and writing tools Submitting your work: understanding author agreements, copyright Promoting your…
Here is the tentative schedule: FALL 2008 readings (not including Jenny2 or student open readings): Thurs., Sept. 18 DC Poetry celebration, Gelman Special Collections, 6:30-9:00, Gelman 206 [Not an English Dept. event, but still a poetry reading, of sorts – with lots of musical accompaniment] Thurs., Sept. 25 Mary Morrissy (2008-09 JMM Writer), 8:15 PM,…
Drugs. Sex. Money. Excess. Narcissism. Moral depravity. I could be referring to the nightly news, but really I am referring to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. That novel about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, that slowly sucks you in, thrilling and horrifying you at the same time….