A Statement from the Department of English

Waimea community mural depicting first Poynesian explorers coming to Kaua’i. Photo: Sharon Snyder As Fall Semester 2014 is about to kick off, GW English is happy to revive its “On the Road” series, which keeps you apprised of faculty research and exploration around the world. We kick off the series this year with a posting…
English major Jina Park published an essay in GW Hatchet in which she details how GW prepared her for the unexpected final semester of her college career due to the coronavirus situation. Jina is currently taking the Critical Theory seminar which explores many issues related to the current crisis. In her essay, Jina shared tips on how to manage…
The Saved From cutting the nuts out of a bull calf’s bag with a Barlow, from laying case knives on a dress pattern, from running a trotline and baiting the hooks with gone liver, from mashing a tobacco worm into a green blot, from crimping dough at the piecrust edge, from whisking an egg, from…
Professor Jonathan Hsy reports: No, the conference was not in Sydney — but apparently any blog posting about Australia requires a photo in front of the Sydney Opera House. Last month (mid-February), I had the pleasure of presenting my work at the Biennial International Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and…
I first encountered Ogden Nash’s Giant Baby Panda poem settled like a gem in Marianne Moore’s 1944 essay “Feeling in Precision.” In the essay, Moore writes: “Voltaire objected to those who said in enigmas what others had said naturally, and we agree; yet we must have the courage of our peculiarities. What would become of…
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…