February 27th, 2010
Magali armillas-Tiseyra, PhD Student
You know that graduate school is getting to you when teaching a summer course is considered a “break.” While working on her dissertation on the dictator novel in Latin American and Franco- and Anglophone African literatures, GW alumna and current NYU graduate student Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, decided it would be good to slow down this summer by teaching a course on the short story. The short story has always been significant for Armillas-Tiseyra. She remembers analyzing the mechanics of short stories in creative writing courses at GW. “I thought focusing on the short story would be a great way to allow students to read broadly while also allowing us to work on the mechanics of close reading and textual analysis. When you’re trying to get through a whole novel with the class, this kind of focused work can sometimes get put aside, and I wanted to be forced to focus on this with my students,” she said. However as easy as it was for Armillas-Tiseyra to choose this topic, it was hard to choose the actual stories. The course will span a broad range of authors from Europe, Latin, and North America. Read more→
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February 27th, 2010
Howard Jacobson, Jewish Literature Live
After a week of being trapped in his hotel room, Howard Jacobson has spoken to more English classes and student groups than he can remember. Tonight he will make a appearance at Hillel and yesterday he finally visited Jewish Literature Live. So surprisingly, the author of Kalooki Nights (probably the most Jewish book I have ever read) and the British Jew, does not like being called a “Jewish” writer. “If I am called a Jewish writer I hit the roof. I am an English writer, but I did not have to choose this subject [Judaism],” he said. “There is no reason why a Jew who writes should be a Jewish writer. I regret marketing myself as a Jewish writer and calling myself a Jewish writer, it limits one.” Plain and simply, Jacobson proclaims himself an “English writer with a Jewish accent.” And there you have it, within the first fifteen minutes of the hour Jacobson was already stirring up controversy and setting our minds on rapid fire. Read more→
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