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 room was packed. Students watched as the head of the Creative Writing Department, Faye Moskowitz, ran around trying to find enough chairs to seat all 225 people who came to last night’s final reading featuring professors Ramola D and Gina Welch. The event is a record in not just the Creative Writing Department’s history,…
In a cautionary piece about teaching university-sponsored online courses, Times Higher Education (THE) quotes extensively from Professor Margaret Soltan’s remarks about the subject on her blog, University Diaries: “All sorts of eyes are peering into your online course. . . . Your students, naturally; but also university administrators, on-campus tech people, the for-profit firm your school has…
Professor of English Christopher Sten published his co-edited book “This Mighty Convulsion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War just last Fall! This collection of essays makes clear that “rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even…
Welcome to Fall Semester 2013! On the Sunday before classes, members of the GW Faculty gathered at Department Chair Robert McRuer’s building downtown to kick things off and to welcome our new members: Professors Ayanna Thompson, David Mitchell, Jennifer Chang, and our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Molly McCloskey. Director of Creative Writing Professor Lisa Page…
Somehow, suddenly, it’s August again! We at GW English find it hard to believe that classes start three weeks from today, on Monday, August 29. Our faculty, as usual, has been hard at work over the summer, planning great courses for our students, and pursuing our research in numerous places around the world. We hope…
