“The Homesick Restaurant”
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam has a beautiful little story in the New York Times magazine entitled “The Homesick Restaurant.” Check it out.
Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam has a beautiful little story in the New York Times magazine entitled “The Homesick Restaurant.” Check it out.
Professor Margaret Soltan has just returned from Nashville, where she covered the annual convention of the NCAA for the online newspaper Inside Higher Education. Soltan, who attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was delighted to be a member of the press corps, and especially delighted to take part in a press conference, during which…
I know I talk and write about this issue a great deal: I am passionate about it, because it is so central to my department’s mission and future. The English Department has everything in place to be the envy of the Ivy League: excellent undergraduate majors, a world-class faculty whose research and creative work are…
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…
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For most graduate students, getting a PhD will be their greatest recent accomplishment. However when Tariq Al-Hayder came to study at GW he was not only a teacher, but a published novelist as well. Originally hailing from Saudi Arabia, Al-Hayder taught English at King Saud University in Riyadh for a year. Whether in the classroom…
Our class of M.A. students. As good-looking as they are brainy. Last week, the English department celebrated the achievements of our graduates with a Ph.D. hooding ceremony, a reception for MA and PhD students, a party for graduating seniors, and, of course, the Columbian College Celebration and Commencement. This year, 12 students earned Departmental Honors…