Why and How to Become an English Major: March 3!
This announcement went out via the Thurston Hall listerv, but anyone who is interested in declaring an English major or minor at GW is very welcome to attend!
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Writing in the Disciplines
This announcement went out via the Thurston Hall listerv, but anyone who is interested in declaring an English major or minor at GW is very welcome to attend!
This seminar explores how the nonhuman world is depicted in literature and film, and the value of sustained attentiveness to environments with these works and within the larger world. Share on FacebookTweet
April welcomes spring’s first flowers and the sustained bloom of National Poetry Month. It’s no coincidence that seeing with a brighter light—and feeling with a warmer disposition—redirects our attention to poems, wherein language becomes stranger, freer, and more like music. In the coming days, the students of Professor Jennifer Chang’s ENGL 2470 (Poetry Writing) course…
The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.” Led by Professor of English and Department Chair Maria Frawley, the project aims to provide marginalized populations with the empowering capacities of storytelling. The Mellon Foundation—the nation’s largest funder of the arts, culture…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…
Paul Cheney of MarketingExperiments The senior editor at MarketingExperiments, a Florida-based firm, recently wrote us to share why his company (and others) value English majors. Check out Paul Cheney’s guest blog below. Should You Major In English? 3 Highly Marketable Business Skills that English Majors Have in Spades I received my B.A. in English…
Faulkner and Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics ENGL 3820W (CRN 15624) Professor Evelyn Schreiber Tuesday/Thursday 12:45-2:00 PM This exciting Fall 2016 course will comprehensively examine the works of two renowned and integral American authors, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, linking their fictional and discursive practices and analyzing how their works and ideologies reflect on each…