Crip/Queer Studies in the GW English Graduate Program

GW English Alums on the Move: Laura Greenfield at Hampshire College

Dr. Laura Greenfield GW English PhD '07 Laura Greenfield (GW English PhD 2007) is founder and executive director of Women's Voices W...

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Next Open Space Open Mic Student Reading: TOMORROW at 7:30 PM

Judith Plotz Receives Children's Literature Association Award

Professor Plotz's Award Plaque Professor Emerita Judith Plotz UPDATE: Professor Emerita Judith Plotz has now received the Anne Devereaux...

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18th Century and More with Professor Seavey

Michel de Montaigne GW Students!  Professor Ormond Seavey's courses for spring afford some great opportunities for exposing yourself to ...

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Politics, Sex, Sentiment! (And a fulfilled GPAC Oral Requirement)

Hogarth, Beggar's Opera GW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015.  This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement. The ...

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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 th...

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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 Cu...

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Transvisceral: The 2015 EGSA Symposium

TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Hollan...

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

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

Jenny McKean Moore seminar alum and author Paul Steinberg " A Salamander's Tale  is about Drugs, Sex, Lust, Rock 'N Roll, Time,...

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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 here .

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A Successful Residency: Simon Gikandi

This week marked the completion of another visiting residency for GW English, sponsored by the Wang Endowment.  Simon Gikandi, Professor of ...

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November 13: Jericho Brown Reading

Poet Jericho Brown will be giving at reading at GWU on November 17 A cursory look through some of Jericho Brown’s poetry such as “ Heart Con...

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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 i...

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Pramila Venkateswaran, GW English PhD, Named Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate

Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate Pramila Venkateswaran Professor Pramila Venkateswaran, who received her PhD from GW's English Depa...

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