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JJC @ Gelman (Thursday 2/12)
Horn tooting of the worst kind. Click on image to enlarge. Jeffrey J. Cohen Chair of the Department of English, Director of GW Medieval & Early Modern Studies Institute,Professor of English and Human Sciences Professor Cohen received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. He has an M.A. in English…
Two courses to keep in mind for Spring 2009
Please keep in mind the two competitive-admission courses we are offering for the spring: 1. Screenwriting with Jason Filardi (Filardi is a GW English alumnus, and the writer of several scripts for comedies that have grossed in the millions) 2. Fiction Writing with Edward P. Jones (Jones won the Pulitzer in 2004 for The Known…
GW Creative Writing Students Feature
For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…
Festivating accomplished
The English Department office has been ornamented, garnished, embellished, trimmed and bedecked for the season. Stop by, grab some chocolate, and see if this year’s theme (“Decorating to Annoy”) has been a success. Share on FacebookTweet
Mixing Pyschoanalysis with English: Marshall Alcorn’s Washington Trauma Conference
English is said to overlap with many other disciplines: American studies, theater, linguistics, and more. But how about psychology? Maybe this would not be your first connection, and even Marshall Alcorn is not the first to claim that the two subjects go together. Our Director of the English Undergraduate Studies, Director of Human Sciences, and…
Dog Days Reading
English major Jessica Chace recently wrote to ask what folks in the English department were reading this summer, so we did a quick poll. Here are reports from far-flung students and faculty: Jessica Chace is finishing up The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. “The title is a bit of misnomer,” she writes, “–it’s actually…