Haiku Contest Winners
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
GW English Professor Margaret Soltan has provided some commentary for Newsweek on the Martin Shkreli case. Shkreli gained notoriety this year for dramatically increasing prices (by more than 5,000 percent) on life-saving drugs one his pharmaceutical company gained the license to those drugs. Shkreli is now facing criminal charges related to fraud and tried to…
GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds Recipient of the 2015 Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds has won this year’s prestigious Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award. The Amsterdam Teaching Award “was created to honor individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to GW teaching and to recognize the…
From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England, a critically lauded study published by Early Modernist Jonathan Gil Harris. A native of New Zealand, Professor Harris joined our department as a full professor…
… writes Chloe Rome, a recent GW English major who’s now working at CNN in Atlanta. “Most people are surprised when I say I was an English major. But my English degree gave me the shape and structure I needed to succeed in journalism. I learned how to read something and think critically about it,…
GW English Professors Daniel DeWispelare and David McAleavey (back row) and Jennifer Chang and Patty Chu (front row) flanked by University of Macau graduate students Four GW English Department faculty recently met with colleagues from the University of Macau’s English Department’s literature section to share expertise and experience, in the hope that further areas…
Joanna Falk, Class of 2013 “Consider everything that’s being said about the crisis of the humanities, but continue to study what you love.” In 2013, Joanna Falk double-majored in English and psychology, earning honors in both. We chatted with Joanna recently about the meaning and value of her English major, and about her current job…