… who was nominated for the parent choice award at this year’s GW Service Excellence Celebration. Joe was described in the nomination letter as an “invaluable resource” for his capacity as a Learning Specialist in GW’s Office of Disability Support Services. Congratulations, Joe!
Thanks to generosity of English Department alumnus David Bruce Smith, we will again be offering our Jewish Literature Live course in the spring semester (English 172.15). Students read novels by renowned writers of contemporary Jewish literature … and the authors come to the class to discuss their work. This class, offered by one of the…
Our new lounge Our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, Tim Johnston Our office coffee maker and candy bowl Our connections to GW MEMSI and Africana Studies Jewish Literature Live with Prof. Faye Moskowitz Our office staff: Constance Kibler, Linda Terry, and work-study students Elisa Valero and Tori Kerr The EGSA! Our majors in English, Creative Writing,…
The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing in Los Angeles, Jason has agreed to teach a course called “Screenwriting” (English 182.10) that will admit fifteen lucky undergraduates. The application form is here and can also be picked up in the…
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
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…
Jason Hipp writes: I currently work in the Development Department at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a fairly small, 15-staff person non-governmental organization (NGO) with headquarters in New York and regional offices in Buenos Aires and Johannesburg. Basically, I help to make sure that the organization can still operate financially, through any…
