Alex Frank’s Sun Ra Thesis

The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing in Los Angeles, Jason has agreed to teach a course called “Screenwriting” (English 182.10) that will admit fifteen lucky undergraduates. The application form is here and can also be picked up in the…

The English Department cordially welcomes Steven Knapp as the new president of the George Washington University. In case any readers need further proof of the many jobs open to English majors, we would like to point out that President Knapp is a scholar well published in both literature and critical theory. We also find it…

Caren Calamita graduated from the department in winter 2004 and is fondly remembered by her former professors. We caught up with her in China, from which she writes: I’m currently living in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, with my fiancé, teaching English to middle school students at a boarding school of 3000 students. Living and working…

[beautiful picture of Margaret Soltan by Nick Gingold, Senior Staff Photographer for the GW Hatchet]From today’s Hatchet, an interview with Professor Margaret Soltan:First of all, I wanted to talk to you about American writer David Foster Wallace, what he meant and what his suicide means for the literary world. My sense of it is that,…

The faculty of the English Department extends its very best wishes to our undergraduate majors as they finish their term papers and prepare for final examinations. For those who are completing their stay at GW, we look forward to seeing you at the CCAS Celebration, at Commencement … and especially at our annual reception for…

[x-posted from In the Middle] The saddest piece of our job as professors involves the number of farewells that teaching requires. Just when you’ve grown fond of a student, just when you think This person has really grown intellectually, is astoundingly smart, is becoming someone wonderful — this is a person I could converse with…