Katherine Bradshaw: Dean’s Scholar Interns at Shakespeare Theatre Company
GW English Major Katherine Bradshaw |
GW English Major Katherine Bradshaw |
Gabe Muller (GW English Minor, ’13) with Diane von Furstenberg Gabe Muller, English Minor, Diane von Furstenberg Intimate Okay, maybe not intimate; but Gabe’s job at Atlantic Media certainly opens doors. He talks about it with Margaret Soltan. So, how did you go from being a humble English minor at GW to a guy who…
GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy GW English congratulates PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy, who has been selected to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Tawnya, who has also been teaching as a member of the faculty at Northern Virginia Community College as she finishes her…
Paula Mejia (BA, Creative Writing/English ’13, MA, English ’14) “I WROTE A BOOK – WHO KNOWS WHAT AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO, TOO” Paula Mejia started as an International Affairs major at GW, and then encountered our Creative Writing faculty — which changed everything. Margaret Soltan talks to her about it. Since you graduated from…
What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I…
Recently Prof. Robert McRuer was interviewed by “Pushing Limits,” a radio show by and for people with disabilities produced by KPFA in Berkeley, California. The show airs twice monthly in the Bay Area and is available as an online broadcast. The segment in question, which is available for listening here, focused on influential American…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…