Memorial Service and Donations for James A. Miller
The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington |
The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington |
English BA Chriselle Tidrick has followed an unusual career path since graduation. I received my B.A. from GW in 1994 with a major in English and a minor in Dance. During my senior year, I had the opportunity to combine these loves by writing an honors thesis about how Isadora Duncan was portrayed through several…
Beacon Press has just published a new book by Associate Professor of English Gayle Wald: Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Professor Wald teaches courses on African American literature, popular music, and U.S. culture in the department. Her previous book Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in 20th -Century U.S….
Recent English department grad Sarah Kuczynski, who has just started a PhD program in English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been selected for a Mellon Fellowship there. It provides a service-free first year and a service-free fifth year for dissertation writing with a stipend of $15, 200. In years two through four, …
Just in time for Christmas or Hanukkah: Sex and Disability, a collection of essays co-edited by Prof. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, will be published by Duke University Press on December 22. And it’s already making Top 10 lists! Here, DailyLoafing’s Shawn Alff calls it one of the “10…
Joe when he is not in Foggy Bottom. Joe Mancinik, the new English Department communications intern, has a philosophy on life, which is as follows: everything that is usual is boring, or eventually becomes boring. So everything that is unusual is outside of himself, since every morning he wakes up to himself, or at least very…
On the heels of Graduation 2013, we continue our new series “GW English Alums on the Move.” We want to hear about your accomplishments and adventures! Professor Margaret Soltan is the new Alumni Relations Coordinator for this blog; if you’re a GW English Alum, please don’t hesitate to send Professor Soltan your news at margaret.soltan@gmail.com…