Novelist Tom Mallon Celebrates with Radio Host, Garrison Keillor
Congratulations to English Professor Daniel DeWispelare and PhD Candidate Vicki Barnett Woods, who have both won awards for excellence within the Writing In the Disciplines program! They will be recognized for their accomplishments in the university-wide Faculty Honors Ceremony, on April 20th at 4:00 pm in the Jack Morton Auditorium, and will receive a…
[Bagel photos by Tess Malone. Photo of Connie Kibler & Tess Malone by Jeffrey Cohen] Shouldn’t you be in Rome 760 right now? You should be sitting in that third chair in the photo. Enjoying a delicious bagel provided by the wonderful Gayle Wald, wearing your incredibly dorky, but awesome English t-shirt, and generally reveling…
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…
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
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…
The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington A memorial service for Professor James A. Miller will be held tomorrow, August 29, 2015, at the National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle. The service will be held at 2:00 PM. Memorial donations in honor of James A….