“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 |
Welcome to Fall Semester 2013! On the Sunday before classes, members of the GW Faculty gathered at Department Chair Robert McRuer’s building downtown to kick things off and to welcome our new members: Professors Ayanna Thompson, David Mitchell, Jennifer Chang, and our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Molly McCloskey. Director of Creative Writing Professor Lisa Page…
GW English Alum CJ Powell GW English Alum CJ Powell: “Two of the investment banking managing directors in Project Finance with whom I worked had Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Dance“ Like a lot of our department’s majors, CJ Powell (she was then CJ Hall) headed for New York City with an interest in…
GW English Professors Daniel DeWispelare and David McAleavey (back row) and Jennifer Chang and Patty Chu (front row) flanked by University of Macau graduate students Four GW English Department faculty recently met with colleagues from the University of Macau’s English Department’s literature section to share expertise and experience, in the hope that further areas…
Jeffrey Gorsky with his daughters Jeffrey Gorsky graduated with honors in English from GW in 1974; he went on to get a GW law degree and to pursue a varied career in the foreign service. Throughout his travels, his GW experience (especially his time in Judith Plotz’s classroom) stayed with him; and indeed he’s currently a…
In 2015, we profiled GW Alum Elizabeth Stephens as she published her first novel. You can read that profile here. She’s back this year with a follow-up novel, The Hunting Town. An advance blurb for the novel describes it in this way: “Drugs, cartels, the mafia. Pain, greed, and revenge. When an unexpected murder brings…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s new book on world literature and intercultural theater draws on theories of aesthetic humanism to explain the force of literature in globalization. The book is entitled Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. The aestheticization of politics in the twentieth century has structured political life as an…