The Creative Writing concentration is designed for students who wish to devote a considerable portion of their work in English to the writing of poetry or fiction (or both). Students fulfill the requirements for this concentration by taking four writing courses, ideally including either the Advanced ...
Scott W. Berg is an author, journalist, and professor of nonfiction writing. He has published three books of narrative history--Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C., and 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Fronti...
Past Event
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier, 3rd Floor
"LOOKING FOR JIMMY" with David Leeming A lecture & conversation: 1:30-2:45 pm, Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier 3rd Floor, GMU, Fairfax, VAProf. Keith Clark will host David Leeming. David Leeming met James Baldwin in Istanbul in 1961. In 1994, Knopf published Leemings “James Baldwin: A B...
Vivek Narayanan was born in India to Tamil parents and grew up in Zambia. He earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and a master’s in creative writing from Boston University. He has taught at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and in the mid-2000s worked at Sarai-CS...
Past Event
Thursday, April 18, 2024 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM EDT
Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Room B, also goes by Room 326
Screening at 3pm: Baldwin's abroad series features three films. This is the screening of the third one. The film will be followed by a Q&A with professors Keith Clark and Leeya Mehta Baldwin's N***** 1968, 46 minutes“In this riveting short documentary by pioneering Trinidadian-British filmma...
Creative writing professor Tania James's latest novel, Loot (Knopf, 2023), was named to the longlist for the National Book Award—one of the top ten contenders for the prize in the fiction category—and earned a spot on the Washington Post's "10 Best Books of the Year." "In Tania James’s epic 18th-ce...
