A Statement from the Department of English
In case you missed it: GW’s first new dialogue on Postcolonial and Ethnic American Literatures! On Oct 5, 2018, we hosted GW’s first all-day forum on Postcolonial and Ethnic American Literatures! Faculty members Kavita Daiya, Patty Chu, Jennifer James, Antonio Lopez, and Daniel DeWispelare co-organized the Wang Fund Forum on “Crisis and Conflict in Postcolonial…
Below is the reprinted version of an article, originally appearing on the CCAS’ Featured Stories page on April 5th, 2018, written by the English Department’s own, Professor Daiya. Read below to learn about the amazing success she had when she re-imagined one of her courses that inserted her student’s voices into public conversations about issues they are passionate…
From the latest edition: Touring a National Treasure Alumnus shows students Library of Congress’ riches A tour of the Library of Congress allowed students to admire the building’s remarkable artwork and architecture. Photo by Rick Reinhard As they perused the personal collection of one of our nation’s founding fathers, GW students took a break from…
I was hired as an assistant professor by the George Washington University in 1994, and have been happy to be a part of the English department from the very first day. Now as a full professor and new chair, I am daily filled with wonder at the excellence of our undergraduate students, at the vigor…
We are pleased to announce that Composing Disability, GW’s biennial Disability Studies conference, returns on March 22-23, 2018. The full program will be posted soon, and the keynote for this event is UK-based artist-activist Liz Crow. Crow is the founder of Roaring Girl Productions and works with performance, film, audio, and text. Her work has…
Professor Jeffrey Cohen‘s new book Earth is featured as a GW Hatchet summer reading suggestion. Read all about it here, and find the book here or here. Share on FacebookTweet