If you are a sophomore or junior at GW, you should be. Information and an application form can be found here. An excellent magazine piece with video can be found here.
The deadline is March 20 (during spring break, as it turns out) — but it is not too early to start on the application and start your planning for Fall 2009.
English Department alumna Beth Lattin (class of 2008) has her first article in Forbes: “Blue States Would Sing Obama Tax Blues.” Congratulations, Beth! Share on FacebookTweet
Whether you are a graduate of the department, a current English major, or simply an interested reader, we love to hear reader comments. Drop us a line: chair@gwu.edu We’re always looking for suggestions — and volunteers — for our features. We’re particularly interested in expanding our featured alumni section, and in featuring the work, projects…
GW’s inaugural British Council Writer in Residence Nadeem Aslam’s newest novel, The Wasted Vigil has just been released. Mr. Aslam read from the novel at the numerous events that the English department hosted to celebrate his residency, and I, like many of those I talked to, was greatly impressed by his reading of the first…
Professor Margaret Soltan has just returned from Nashville, where she covered the annual convention of the NCAA for the online newspaper Inside Higher Education. Soltan, who attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was delighted to be a member of the press corps, and especially delighted to take part in a press conference, during which…
On behalf of the students and faculty of GW’s Department of English, I would like to thank the Wang family, whose generosity has resulted in the single largest gift our department has ever received. Creating a visiting professorship in contemporary literature and a series of annual lectures, this gift will change the department profoundly. We…
So you’re wondering what to do before the English Department’s BIG READ on February 11 at 4 p.m. in Rome 771? (That event, as you recall, will give you an exclusive audience with the fabulously witty and talented Howard Jacobson, known to Brits as a novelist, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, and all-around public intellectual, and yet…
