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EGSA Event: Advice on Oral Exams
May 9, 2011 by AubreyJoin us this Thursday, May 12 in the English Conf room for a discussion on Oral Exam Prep. Awesome 2nd years have offered to share advice and experience. Highly recommended. Hope to see you there.
Oral Exam Advice
Thursday, May 12
12:00-1:00pm
NN311

EGSA Event: Jobs for Humanities Grads
March 28, 2011 by AubreyWant to get a job with your humanities degree? Not ready or interested in continuing to a PhD program? Want to consider other options? Come for a panel conversation with representatives from CNDLS, the Career Center, and faculty from various departments to discuss career tracks for humanities students. Open to all students (graduate and undergraduate). Sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
New North 311
12:00pm-1:00pm
Please rsvp to georgetownegsa@gmail.com

Lannan Reading: David Gewanter
November 2, 2010 by Josie Torres BarthLannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice invites you to attend
David Gewanter
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010
SEMINAR | 5:30 PM | NEW NORTH 408
READING | 8:00 PM | COPLEY FORMAL LOUNGE
Reception and book-signing to follow
from “War Bird: A Journal”
The massed and pillared wings of
the White House never fly—
whitewashed yearly, they stand
impervious
to metaphor,
to hawk and dove, and red armies
of ants. Only the halting squirrels
investigate, creeping past the arrowhead
gates to scratch
the Midas lawns
for treasure—On the street, commentators
wander like boys in a story too simple
to explain.

Poetry at Noon
October 28, 2010 by Josie Torres BarthOur 2010-2011 Poetry at Noon series continues with a November program entitled “Insider/Outsider Experiences.” David Gewanter, Carol V. Davis and Joseph Ross will use poetry to convey what it feels like to be an insider or an outsider. The event takes place on Tuesday, November 16 at 12:00 noon in the Whittall Pavilion in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE in Washington, DC. The event is free and tickets are not required. Please join us!

Literary Event TONIGHT: Michael Ondaatje at the Lannan Center
October 26, 2010 by Josie Torres BarthLannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice invites you to attend
Michael Ondaatje
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010
SEMINAR | 5:30 PM | NEW NORTH 408
READING | 8:00 PM | PRESIDENT’S ROOM, HEALY HALL
Reception and book-signing to follow in Riggs Library
(adjacent to the President’s Room)
from “Handwriting”
The Distance of a Shout
We lived on the medieval coast
south of warrior kingdoms
during the ancient age of the winds
as they drove all things before them.
Monks from the north came
down our streams floating—that was
the year no one ate fish.
There was no book of the forest,
no book of the sea, but these
are the places people died.
Handwriting occurred on waves,
on leaves, the scripts of smoke,
a sign on a bridge along the Mahaweli River.
A gradual acceptance of this new language.
This event is free and open to the public.

Literary Event: Alice McDermott & Paul Elie
October 19, 2010 by Josie Torres BarthWALKING ON AIR: ALICE McDERMOTT
AND THE FAITH OF THE NOVELIST
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
LECTURE
4:30 p.m. – Riggs Library, Third Floor, Healy Hall
RECEPTION
6:00 p.m. – The President’s Room, Third Floor, Healy Hall
Georgetown University
37th and “O” Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.
R.s.v.p. by October 31 to
Msg52@georgetown.edu
Alice McDermott is a New York Times best-selling author who was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of several acclaimed novels: That Night (1987) was a finalist for the Pultizer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pen/Faulkner Award; At Weddings and Wakes (1992) was a New York Times best-seller and Pulitzer finalist; Charming Billy (1998) won the National Book Award; Child of My Heart (2002) was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and After This (2006) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is currently a writer-in-residence at John Hopkins University.
Paul Elie is a Senior Editor with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, New York, and the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (2003), a group portrait of Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day. The Life You Save May Be Your Own received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, a Christopher Award, the Beliefnet Book of the Year award, and the annual awards in Christianity and Literature and in the Literature of the South given by the Modern Language Association; the book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.

Nobel in Literature Winner Herta Mueller at Goethe Institute
February 23, 2010 by Anna KruseHerta Mueller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, is having a book discussion at the Goethe Institute on Wednesday, March 3 at 6:30. The event will be moderated by Georgetown’s own Peter Pfeiffer. Here’s a snippet from the flyer distributed to mark the event:
Mueller’s novel Passport will be the topic of this session of the European Literature Book Club, which is designed to provide an opportunity to discuss European literature in a friendly literary atmosphere. Books can be purchased at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW). Please bring your book to the discussion. A series of themes and questions will be distributed at the beginning of the event or sent in advance by email.
The Goethe Institute is located in Chinatown (812 7th St. NW). There’s a $5 charge for those who are not Goethe Institute members.

Caine Prize Winner Speaking at Georgetown!
February 16, 2010 by Meaghan FritzGeorgetown is very fortunate to present Nigerian writer EC Osondu, the 2009 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story, “Waiting.” More information on Osundu and “Waiting” can be found here.
Osundo will read from his work (and he is known to be a great reader, by the way!) this Thursday, February 18th, at 8:00pm in Copley Formal Lounge. As always, a reception will follow.
Osondu has also won the Allen and Nirelle Galso Prize for Fiction, and another story of his, “Jimmy Carter’s Eyes,” was short-listed for the Caine Prize in 2007.

MAENGL Podcast Launched!
February 3, 2010 by Meaghan FritzHello everyone,
Cheryl and I are proud to present the MAENGL podcast that we worked on last semester! We interviewed former English M.A. student, Anna Kruse, the inventor of MAENGL, and two students working on research blogs within the MAENGL community, Laura Chasen and Michael Walsh. Our podcast presents an in-depth look at both the MAENGL model and at academic blogging here at Georgetown, so take a listen! You can access the podcast here.

Pulitzer Prize Poet, John Ashbery, to Speak at Georgetown!
January 26, 2010 by Meaghan FritzThe Lannan Program is proud to present a reading by Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur “Genius” Grant winning poet, John Ashbery. The reading will take place on Tuesday, February 2nd, at 8:00pm in Copley Formal Lounge. Recently, Ashbery’s “Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems” won the 2008 Griffin International Prize for Poetry. “Planisphere,” his latest volume of new poetry, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in December 2009.
Find out more about John Ashbery at www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=233.