“And the Bridge Is Love” and More Books
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| Faye Moskowitz at Politics and Prose on Nov. 13. |
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| Recent books by English faculty on display at the Celebration of Scholarship Nov. 11 |
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| Faye Moskowitz at Politics and Prose on Nov. 13. |
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| Recent books by English faculty on display at the Celebration of Scholarship Nov. 11 |
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…
Read more here from the Washington Post’s feature article about creative writing professor Louis Bayard’s most recent novel Roosevelt’s Beast. Congratulations! Share on FacebookTweet
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: After completing her undergraduate degree in English at GW, Kat Kirman will continue her studies as an MA student in American University’s Film Production program. Her love of cinema and writing has been profoundly enriched by GW’s English curriculum, and she hopes to continue this growth during her graduate career! Share…
Professor Hsy tweets @Jonathan Hsy GW English is on Twitter! And we thought it might be useful to our readers, especially as the next Digital Humanities Symposium kicks off, to have a round-up of where to find us. Join us on Friday, January 30, for a Digital Humanities Symposium which in fact includes a few twitter…
As President of the Residence Hall Association, Mike Massaroli is not only a junior studying Political Science, but he is a legitimate GW Celebrity. AND, he cares about poetry. Kenny Hoffman recently interviewed Mike about his favorite poem, Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat,” and how poems figure into the life of the RHA. THE…