Transnational Film Studies Students to Hold Public Symposium December 8
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn |
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn |
The English department announces the launch of an exciting new course in Spring 2017! This new course is in film studies: in Spring 2017, students and alumni can learn more about the world’s most widely consumed popular cinema: Bollywood Cinema. From Coldplay and Beyonce’s music video “Hymn For the Weekend” to the Oscar-winning Danny Boyle film Slumdog…
English 6450 Modernism, At Home and Abroad: Transnational Ties Spring 2016 Professor Chris Sten (csten@gwu.edu) W 4:10-6:00 pm Rome 771 This graduate seminar on Modernist writing, which is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike, will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Djuna…
Disability Studies: Composing Disability, or Why Art Matters ENGL 3910.10 (CRN 14687) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 12:45-2 This course offers a gateway into the interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies, a burgeoning field that examines the wide cultural meanings of disability across time and space. Our main objective will be to interrogate varied and capacious perceptions…
English 179.60 took the department’s global focus quite literally this month. Professor Robert McRuer and thirteen students—including English majors Reed Cooley, Erica Manoatl, Colby Katz-Lapides, Jon Mahoney, and Jessica Rawlins—traveled to Prague on November 5 to spend a week at Mezipatra: the 9th Annual International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The class, “Transnational Film Studies…
This Fall 2018 Semester, The English Department will offer two courses, ENGL 3210: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf and ENGL 3551: The 19th Century British Novel. Each course dives deep into some of English literature’s most popular and enduring novels. Both courses are taught by Professor Jennifer Green-Lewis. ENGL 3210 – Readings in Creative Writing: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf…
An exciting opportunity for interested students! This fall, GW English will continue our partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, specifically its “Writers in Schools” program. Writers in Schools has been running in DC for more than 20 yeas. It pairs writers with English (high school) classrooms, providing support to teachers and students and facilitating visits by writers to schools. Teachers,…