English Departmental Annual Report Form (AY 06-07)Prepared by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Chair Major Accomplishments This academic year marked a profound moment of change for the English Department. Senior faculty who had long run the department (and had run it very well) saw the results of some canny hiring in the past as new faculty stepped…
Annie Kelly writes: After graduating from GW in May I got a job working for Senator John McCain’s Presidential campaign as the Director of Administration. I am responsible for operations and logistics of the national campaign office as well as the satellite offices in primary states. It is long hours, a lot of work, and…
The English Department cordially welcomes Steven Knapp as the new president of the George Washington University. In case any readers need further proof of the many jobs open to English majors, we would like to point out that President Knapp is a scholar well published in both literature and critical theory. We also find it…
Politics & Prose Bookstore presents Thomas Mallon author of Fellow Travelers: A Novel Sunday, July 1, 1 p.m. 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW • Washington, DC www.politics-prose.com • (202) 364-1919 FELLOW TRAVELERS (Pantheon, $25) In this new novel, Mallon takes us back to the days of Joe McCarthy, when the Wisconsin senator was on a rampage…
The English Department is happy to announce that a new university seminar we proposed has been funded. The Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (MEMS) proposal is one fruit of an effort the department is making to foster the study of early Britain within a transnational frame in our department. With resources like the Folger Shakespeare…
Caren Calamita graduated from the department in winter 2004 and is fondly remembered by her former professors. We caught up with her in China, from which she writes: I’m currently living in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, with my fiancé, teaching English to middle school students at a boarding school of 3000 students. Living and working…
[x-posted from In the Middle] The saddest piece of our job as professors involves the number of farewells that teaching requires. Just when you’ve grown fond of a student, just when you think This person has really grown intellectually, is astoundingly smart, is becoming someone wonderful — this is a person I could converse with…
What a pleasure it was to meet your families at our reception, to hear about your future plans … and to shake your hand as you were recognized at the CCAS Celebration. Best of luck in whatever comes next, and please keep us informed. For the English Department, Jeffrey Cohen Chair
We asked GW graduate Rati Bishnoi to let us know what she has been doing since finishing her degree. She writes: Presently I work as a defense reporter here in DC. After graduating in 2003, I set out to pursue a job in journalism and publishing. Before landing at the independent publication “Inside the Pentagon”…
from the latest edition of the GW student publication le culte du moi American Girls by Jane Shore The first of the dolls she asked for was Addy, a Negro slave escaped from the Civil War. Addy arrived at Emma’s sixth birthday party wearing her historically accurate dress, drawers, stockings, cap-toed boots, and carrying a…
