Student Blogs

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…

While not Valentine’s themed, Robert Hass’s “Privilege of Being” is the first poem that jumps to mind when I think of great romantic poetry. For the in-love and love cynics alike, enjoy and Happy Valentine’s Day. Privilege of BeingRobert Hass Many are making love. Up above, the angelsin the unshaken ether and crystal of human…

Former GW creative writer professor Jodi Bolz. UPDATE 5/22/12 at 11:48 a.m.:  Tonight’s reading by Jodi Bolz is at 6:30 p.m. Jodi Bolz, who taught in our creative writing program for more than 20 years, will be reading from her work at the Martin Luther King Jr. branch of the DC Public Library Tuesday, May…

Help design a T-shirt for GWU English! The English Department is sponsoring a contest to design a T-shirt. Submit your (funny) phrase or design idea to chair@gwu.edu If your phrase or design is selected, you win a free T-shirt, and all the glory appertaining thereto. The winner of the T-shirt contest will be announced at…

From Mary Tabor‘s Intermediate Fiction 103 class comes this modular story from junior Sarah Krouse. (W)hole She had knitted a baby blanket for a child that was not her own. In the bottom right corner of her meticulously crafted yarn tapestry was an “L.” She could be a part of this. She bought her 1100…

This past fall saw the inaugural class of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar. Focused on “Books and Early Modern Culture,” the seminar is the first offering of the new Undergraduate Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The seminar was developed with the support of the Dean’s office of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences…