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Jumat, 19 Desember 2014
Minggu, 07 Desember 2014
GW English Alums on the Move: Laura Greenfield at Hampshire College
Dr. Laura GreenfieldGW English PhD '07Laura Greenfield (GW English PhD 2007) is founder and executive director of Women's Voices Worldwide, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting social justice around the globe by educating women and girls to be powerful speakers in all areas of personal, academic, professional, and civic life. Since 2013, she has been a visiting associate professor of Education and Communication at Hampshire College. She was recently featured on ...
Rabu, 03 Desember 2014
Selasa, 02 Desember 2014
Judith Plotz Receives Children's Literature Association Award
Professor Plotz's Award PlaqueProfessor Emerita Judith PlotzUPDATE: Professor Emerita Judith Plotz has now received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, at a ceremony on June 20, 2015. She received a plaque that included images from Rudyard Kipling's own illustrations to Just So Stories, a text which she has edited.The occasion was particularly memorable as one of Professor Plotz's earliest GW graduate students, Richard Flynn, now a major children's literature scholar, made the presentation. Professor ...
Senin, 24 November 2014
18th Century and More with Professor Seavey
Michel de MontaigneGW Students! Professor Ormond Seavey's courses for spring afford some great opportunities for exposing yourself to a wide range of literature, from its early American beginnings to the classic Education of Henry Adams, published in 1907.English 3490 Early American Literature and CultureCRN: 43931, Tue/Thur 3:45-5 PMBeginning with a Shakespeare text which represents a bridge between the turbulent early modern period in Europe from which Renaissance literature emerged and ...
Jumat, 21 November 2014
Politics, Sex, Sentiment! (And a fulfilled GPAC Oral Requirement)
Hogarth, Beggar's OperaGW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015. This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement.The Eighteenth Century: The Theatre of Politics, Sex, and SentimentProfessor Tara G. WallaceCRN: 47695Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:50 AMIn 1660, after two decades of Puritan rule, England regained its monarchy and its theatres, and both court and stage enthusiastically embraced the spirit of liberty enabled by the new regime under Charles II, the Merry Monarch. ...
Rabu, 19 November 2014
Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: Race, Memory and Aesthetics
GW Students: Another great course for Spring 2015! Study Toni Morrison and William Faulkner with Professor Evelyn Schreiber (president of the Toni Morrison Society).English 3820W.10, CRN 42671, "William Faulkner and Toni Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics"Major Authors: Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: "Race, Memory, and Aesthetics" : This course links authors Toni Morrison and William Faulkner through the ways in which their fictional and discursive practices reflect on each other. Specifically, ...
The Cultural Memory of Slavery in Literature and Film
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GW Students! We'll be featuring a few of our Spring 2015 courses here over the next week. Consider signing up for English 3570: The Cultural Memory of Slavery in Literature and Film, taught by Professor Jennifer James. The CRN is 48139, TR 2:20-3:35. The upcoming two hundred-year anniversary of the end of the Civil War has renewed debates about our nation’s complex relationship to the history of slavery. The recent success of major theatrical films about enslavement has given ...
Transvisceral: The 2015 EGSA Symposium
TRANSVISCERALThe George Washington UniversityFebruary 6, 2015Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black)Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012).In this symposium, we hope to explore the interplay of bodies and affects, ideas andcorporealities in literary, artistic, historical, and cultural ...
Senin, 10 November 2014
Minggu, 09 November 2014
Paul Steinberg, JMM Seminar Alum, Publishes A Salamander's Tale
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Creative Non-Fiction, GW Creative Writing, Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, Paul Steinberg, Tilar Mazzeo
Jenny McKean Moore seminaralum and author Paul Steinberg"A Salamander's Tale is about Drugs, Sex, Lust, Rock 'N Roll, Time, and Death"Paul Steinberg, a longtime psychiatrist in Washington, graduated from GW's Jenny McKean Moore seminar. His book, A Salamander's Tale: Regeneration and Redemption in Facing Prostate Cancer, comes out next April. We talked to him about his time at GW, his work life, his relationship to literature, and his forthcoming book.You were a student ...
Senin, 03 November 2014
Monstrous Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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GW MEMSI, monstrous knowledge
Join GW English and GW MEMSI next week for the Monstrous Knowledge Symposium! More details available on GW MEMSI's blog he ...
Jumat, 31 Oktober 2014
A Successful Residency: Simon Gikandi
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Africana Studies, GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies, Simon Gikandi, Wang Visiting Professor
This week marked the completion of another visiting residency for GW English, sponsored by the Wang Endowment. Simon Gikandi, Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, and author (most recently) of the critically-acclaimed Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton UP, 2011) was with us from October 26-October 31.The residency included visits to our two Critical Methods courses (a course required for all majors), an extended seminar with graduate students and faculty ...
Selasa, 28 Oktober 2014
November 13: Jericho Brown Reading
Poet Jericho Brown will be giving at reading at GWU onNovember 17A cursory look through some of Jericho Brown’s poetry such as “Heart Condition” or “Langston Blue” reveals a straightforward poetic style that conveys not-so-straightforward themes and emotions. There is an undeniable force behind the words of Brown’s poetry.In a recent interview with the Poetry Society of America, Jericho Brown outlined some of the guiding principles he keeps in mind while writing a poem, stating: “I strive ...
Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2014
Aaron Hamburger Leads DC Reads Discussion November 5
This year's DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Join GW English's Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM. The discussion -- and samples of Ethiopian food! -- will be at the Takoma Park Neighborhood Libra ...
Kamis, 23 Oktober 2014
Pramila Venkateswaran, GW English PhD, Named Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate
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creative writing, GW English Alums on the Move, poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate
Suffolk County New York Poet LaureatePramila VenkateswaranProfessor Pramila Venkateswaran, who received her PhD from GW's English Department in 1988, recently became the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York. We chatted with Professor Venkateswaran about her selection as laureate, her poetry, and her memories of the GW English department:1. When did you graduate from GW? What was your degree? With whom did you study?I graduated from GW in 1988. My dissertation ...
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