Graduate Program in English: Rising Prestige

The month long GW-British Council residency of novelist, playwright and polymath Suhayl Saadi has come to its end. Dominick Chilcott, the British Deputy Head of Mission, invited some members of the English department, Dean Peg Barratt, and prominent members of the DC diplomatic and arts communities to his home last night to celebrate a second…

Media Credit: Marie McGrory/Hatchet photographer University President Steven Knapp shakes the hand of visiting professor and Pulizer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones, right, who read from his new book “The Known World” at the Jack Morton Auditorium on Thursday night. by Becky ReevesHatchet Reporter Edward P. Jones, a renowned fiction author and visiting professor at…

Professor Gayle Wald is once again teaching her very successful English 40W, Literature of the Americas. She was recently thumbing through old GW Bulletins and reports on her archival work: In preparation for ENGL 40, our Literature of the Americas class, I decided to look at GWU Bulletins once a decade, beginning in 1918-1919 and…

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Yes, I know: it’s summer, and most of us have turned our brains off (I am just back from a family vacation at Disney World, and if that doesn’t constitute adequate proof of cranial de-activation, I do not know what would). Here, though, is some exciting news, courtesy of Cathy Eisenhower at the Gelman Library:…

Our intrepid Front Office Student Worker, Sasha, somehow conned the department chair into opening a Twitter account under the name “GWENGL.” A series of tweets erupted yesterday, with more likely to follow. We consider this twitter twaddle to be a two week experiment. Most of what will be disseminated will be lies (we are a…