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End of Year Giving
It isn’t too late to earn a tax deduction and to help the English Department be the best it can be during 2009. Your contribution directly supports literature and the arts at GW. Follow this link to contribute. Please make sure you check the last category, “Other,” and designate the English Department. Thank you ……
Jane Shore Has a Perfect RMP Score!
RateMyProfessors can be a delicate subject for faculty members, who often mistrust and fear it the way business owners mistrust and fear Yelp! (“The food was awesome!” “The food was inedible!” “Awesome!” “Inedible!”). But according to an interesting piece in The Hatchet, the site ranking system seems to produce results that roughly mesh with evaluations…
Welcome to the Fall Semester!
The faculty of the English Department of the George Washington University welcomes all of our students to campus and to class. Best wishes for a very successful year. Share on FacebookTweet
Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72) Part Four
To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a five part interview with alumnus Mark Olshaker. A 1972 graduate of the English Department, Olshaker has put his B.A. in English to good use as a writer, filmmaker, and self-proclaimed dilettante. If you…
Alumna Lilly Rivlin Screens Film about Writer Grace Paley
Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…
The English Department Thanks Its Summer Donors
Alumni, students, parents, faculty and friends generously support the GW English Department through their philanthropy. In amounts ranging from $5 to $30,000, these contributions enable us to have famous writers visit campus, support faculty and undergraduate research, hold special events, and enrich the study and teaching of the humanities at GW. We’d like to recognize…