Alumna Lilly Rivlin Screens Film about Writer Grace Paley
Writer and Activist Grace Paley |
Writer and Activist Grace Paley |
For most graduate students, getting a PhD will be their greatest recent accomplishment. However when Tariq Al-Hayder came to study at GW he was not only a teacher, but a published novelist as well. Originally hailing from Saudi Arabia, Al-Hayder taught English at King Saud University in Riyadh for a year. Whether in the classroom…
Jeanne M. Rose graduated with a degree in English twelve years ago. We asked her to let us know how she is doing. She writes: After graduating from GWU in 1995, I enrolled at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. My graduate work focused on the relationship between literature and composition, and my dissertation…
Joseph Fisher and Brian Flota, who describe themselves as “surely two of the department’s most handsome students,” are collaborating on a collection of essays entitled “Catastrophe and the Cure”: The Politics of Post-9/11 Music. Their call for papers reads in part: In current debates about the War in Iraq, it has become commonplace for politicians…
Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m. Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…
Seeing Shakespeare rarely conjures up the taste of jerk chicken or the sounds of Bob Marley, but that is not to say that the Bard was not meant for the beaches of the Caribbean. These were exactly Timothy Douglas’ thoughts when directing a Much Ado About Nothing set during the 2009 DC Caribbean Festival at…
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE In early April we’ll be awarding the prestigious Academy of American Poets College Prize to a G.W. student. Thanks to grants from the Jenny McKean Moore Fund for Writers and Columbian College in 1990, G.W. was able to join the influential Academy, founded in 1934 to support American poets and…