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 ...

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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.  ...

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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, ...

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The Cultural Memory of Slavery in Literature and Film

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 ...

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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 ...

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ALCO Sponsors American Studies Book Launch for Professors Anker, Cohen-Cole, and Nash

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Paul Steinberg, JMM Seminar Alum, Publishes A Salamander's Tale

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 ...

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Monstrous Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Join GW English and GW MEMSI next week for the Monstrous Knowledge Symposium!  More details available on GW MEMSI's blog he ...

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