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Transnational Film Studies Students to Hold Public Symposium December 8
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn For the past ten years, GW English has offered a unique interdisciplinary in lgbtq studies and film studies; on Saturday, December 8, students from the class will come together to present their work-in-progress. Students from Professor Robert McRuer’s “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ cultures” (English 3980) will…
Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory with Professor Mitchell
Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies. Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…
Rome Hall and Beyond: English Majors and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation on the Contemporary Writer and Education
As the Spring 2013 semester begins, we asked GW English PhD candidate Elizabeth Pittman, to reflect on her experiences teaching an innovative service learning course. It was a successful semester, marking the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between GW English and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Her reflections on the course are included here. “Create dangerously for…
Creative Writing Program Ranked Best
Congratulations to GW’s Creative Writing Program, which was picked by CreativeWritingEDU as the best Creative Writing Degree Program in the District of Columbia!
Reflections on Professor Mitchell’s “Disabled People and the Holocaust”
*The following blog was created by students in Professor Mitchell’s Dean’s Scholars in Globalization Class during Spring semester, 2015: “Disabled People and the Holocaust”. Each student has written an entry for exhibitions, museums, and memorials attended during a 10 day trip to Germany. The primary goal of our investigations was to examine the medical mass…
A New Poetry Course with Professors Chang & Hsy
On the eve of the first day of National Poetry Month, the English Department announces a dynamic new course on poetry. This course is ideal for students curious about the relationship between literary analysis and composition practices, and it can be taken to fulfill a requirement for Creative Writing majors (see below): The ABC’s of…