Congratulations! Earlier this month, it was announced that Tammy Greenwood-Stewart was chosen for the Individual Artist Award for her fiction. The fiction category is offered every other year, and it was Tammy’s second time applying for the grant and her first time receiving the award. Here is a description of the award from the MSAC…

The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, author of MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Skoog will teach ENGL 181, a poetry writing workshop, both semesters, and will helm a free creative writing workshop open to the Washington, D.C. community…

Unless you are reading the GWEnglish blog via Facebook, Google Reader, or some other RSS feed compiler, you will notice that to your right we have introduced our very first poll. The question we are asking is nearly cosmic in its importance: should the English Department adopt a new mascot, or is the noncolorful Hippo…

As chair of the department I’m in frequent contact with our alumni, men and women who have gone on to an array of careers that — quite frankly — amaze me in their variety and their ambition. I noticed during my first year as chair, however, a puzzling phenomenon: our current majors and former majors…

English major Patrick Rochelle has a nice opinion piece in the most recent GW Hatchet. Rochelle urges the University not to shortchange the humanities, and cites last week’s Toni Morrison events as a notable celebration of the humanities in general and literature in particular. As Rochelle notes, Morrison referred to reading a mode of discovery–not…

Stepping into Gregory Pardlo’s office is an odd, but charming combination of thrift store and art museum. Picasso adorns the wall as well as a salvaged window screen from Brooklyn. They are not just mere decorations, but help to explain some the fundamentals of GW’s newest creative writing professor. For Pardlo is not just a…