English Department “On The Move”
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jordan Coggins will be our Communications Liaison for the 2014-2015 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jordan will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Jordan is pursuing a B.A. in English…
Congratulations to all members of the Class of 2014. This spring, GW English graduated 5 Ph.D. students, 5 M.A. students, and 84 B.A. students. We are proud of all of your hard work and your many accomplishments! Ph.D. students were “hooded” at a ceremony in the Smith Center on Thursday evening. The dark blue color…
“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for…
JMM Writer-in-Washington Kseniya Melnik Photo Credit: Morgan Demeter The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to…
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…
Professor Margaret Soltan is among those interviewed in today’s GW Hatchet, on the topic of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): “GW is on the verge of joining an online education revolution, following in the footsteps of elite universities that have over the past year launched hundreds of free online classes – open to anyone with…