GW Magazine Seeks Parenting Stories from Alums

English alumni: GW Magazine wants to hear about the day that you became parents.Since the magazine's spring issue will be out over Mother's Day and Father's Day, the staff thought it would be compelling to open "emotional time capsules" from the day that daughters and sons became mothers and fathers for the first time.  The ideas is to have alumni share a piece of their experience from a day that, presumably, changed everything! Any memories from that day are welcome -- big or small, sad or ...

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Siegfried Huffnagle: Meet the New Communications Liaison

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Creative Writing in GW Today

"For lessons in literature," GW Today reminds readers,"George Washington University students do not have to rely on just books—they can meet authors in person through the English Department’s campus lecture series and public readings this semester. Several writers will come to campus through the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series, led by Lisa Page, acting director of creative writing, and Jewish Lit Live, a class taught by English Professor Faye Moskowitz."See the full GW Today calendar here.  And ...

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GW English Professors on Twitter

Professor Hsy tweets@Jonathan HsyGW English is on Twitter!  And we thought it might be useful to our readers, especially as the next Digital Humanities Symposium kicks off, to have a round-up of where to find us.  Join us on Friday, January 30, for a Digital Humanities Symposium which in fact includes a few twitter "celebrities" or experts such as Suey Park (@suey_park) and Dorothy Kim (@dorothyk98).  Professor Kim has done some excellent work theorizing Twitter as a digitally-mediated ...

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Disrupting Digital Humanities Symposium: January 30

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Shakespeare in the Mediterranean: Summer 2015

Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience.Venetian CanalsDubrovnik from the hillsThis is your opportunity to travel in his stead. Make the voyage to Venice and read Othello and the Merchant of Venice along its canals; journey to Verona and read about star crossed young lovers in Romeo and Juliet; cross the Mediterranean to the magical sea coast of Illyria and read Twelfth Night in Dubrovnik.  Come ...

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MARGARET SOLTAN AT GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND AT BOOKS@WORK

Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story "Trust Me" by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which "brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings."

In March and April, she'll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library.  Here's the schedule (all classes meet on Sunday):

March 1, 2:00 Introduction; Romantic Poetry

March 8, 2:00 Victorian Poetry

March 15, 2:00 Modernist Poetry

March 22, 2:00 Post-Modern Poetry

April 12, 2:00 Concluding Lecture

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Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age

GW English PhD ('08) Myra Remigio-Leonard is among the DC librarians working to organize a series of events in January titled "Orwellian America.""Orwellian America is a series of programs focused on government transparency and personal privacy in the digital age during the last two weeks of January.  Events include a screening of "The Internet's Own Boy" at the Black Cat, a marathon reading of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four" at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, an interview with ...

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