Painting by Joseph Citro The GW Africana Studies Program, Latino Studies Program, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute are proud to sponsor in partnership two events that focus upon William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and its legacies. You may read some background here, and see the program for TemFest I here. Rereading the Tempest a…

The English Department is very happy to welcome three new writers to the ranks of our Creative Writing faculty. All will be joining us this semester to teach our popular ENGL 1210 (formerly ENGL 81), Introduction to Creative Writing. LOUIS BAYARD is a graduate of Princeton and Northwestern universities. His novels include The Pale Blue…

Read coverage from The Hatchet about Prof. Jeffrey Cohen, winner of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-12 Share on FacebookTweet

You have likely been hearing a great deal about playwright Tony Kushner lately, as he is the screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s new film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis.  Kushner rose to prominence two decades ago, when his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Angels…

Department alumnus Keith Feldman writes: I’m pleased to report that I write you from my new office at UC Berkeley, where I’ve just begun a tenure track position in comparative ethnic studies. As you might imagine, I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—by the opportunity to work in such a generative atmosphere. I was hired in part because…

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