Transnational Queer Film Studies Returns Fall 2016
Students in English 3980 in Prague with special guest Professor Karen Tongson of USC |
GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration!
Students in English 3980 in Prague with special guest Professor Karen Tongson of USC |
GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration!
Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience. Venetian Canals Dubrovnik from the hills This is your opportunity to travel in his stead. Make the voyage to Venice and read Othello and the Merchant of Venice along its canals; journey to Verona and read about…
Course descriptions for fall semester upper-division English classes may be accessed here. Please keep these courses in mind when making your choices: (1) The Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar on the History of the Book. The application deadline is this Friday, March 27. This is a one of a kind course. Info and application View an…
Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”
An Exciting Fall 2017 English Course Offering: This exciting course links authors Toni Morrison and William Faulkner through the ways in which their fictional and discursive practices reflect on each other. Specifically, we will examine how the texts of both authors reenact and resist racism and patriarchal structures; how they explore the ways in which memory…
An exciting opportunity for interested students! This fall, GW English will continue our partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, specifically its “Writers in Schools” program. Writers in Schools has been running in DC for more than 20 yeas. It pairs writers with English (high school) classrooms, providing support to teachers and students and facilitating visits by writers to schools. Teachers,…
English 6450 Modernism, At Home and Abroad: Transnational Ties Spring 2016 Professor Chris Sten (csten@gwu.edu) W 4:10-6:00 pm Rome 771 This graduate seminar on Modernist writing, which is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike, will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Djuna…