From Today’s Hatchet: Professor Soltan on MOOCs
Photo by Tamara Trocki |
Photo by Tamara Trocki |
For Latinx Heritage Month, we are celebrating and showcasing the research of Prof. Antonio López, who works on Latinx literature and culture from the colonial era to the contemporary period. He is the author of “Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America” (New York: New York University Press, 2012). This book won Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Book Prize…
GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction. Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…
Andy, Kathryn, and their officiant Chris It’s almost Valentine’s Day and the English Department happened to notice that one of its very own alums, Kathryn Frazier, Class of 2003, is featured in the most recent edition of Colonial Cable: News for GW Alumni and Friends. Kathryn was married to Andy Stone (a GW Political Communication major,…
By GW Student Reporter There was a tempest of sorts happening outside as I rushed over puddles and clumps of wet leaves to catch one of newly-arrived Alexa Alice Joubin’s courses entitled “Global Shakespeare.” The course title could easily be describing Alexa herself, a native of Taiwan, who first encountered a performance of the Bard’s…
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…
Margaret Soltan sat down to catch up with Michael Bennett, an English alum who received his BA from GW in 2002 and went on to earn his PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The last time we caught up with Bennett back in 2010 he had just become an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater! He…