Music Professor Steve Hilmy Reads a Poem
Professor Plotz’s Award Plaque Professor Emerita Judith Plotz UPDATE: Professor Emerita Judith Plotz has now received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, at a ceremony on June 20, 2015. She received a plaque that included images from Rudyard Kipling’s own illustrations to Just So Stories, a text which she has edited. The occasion was particularly memorable…
The English department is delighted to announce that Melissa Mogollon is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Prize for her poem “Salon.” David Meni is the winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets Prize for his set of poems titled “Intermezzo.” There was a robust set of entries for both prizes this…
GW English Professors Daniel DeWispelare and David McAleavey (back row) and Jennifer Chang and Patty Chu (front row) flanked by University of Macau graduate students Four GW English Department faculty recently met with colleagues from the University of Macau’s English Department’s literature section to share expertise and experience, in the hope that further areas…
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 bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative…
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…
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…