Dr. Jonathan Hope Please join us for the George Washington University’s Medieval & Early Modern Studies Institute’s Annual Shakespeare Lecture and reception with Dr. Jonathan Hope Monstrous Devices or Shakespeare Machines? Can Computers Read Hamlet for You? Friday, September 8, 2017 4-5:30 pm, Post Hall (on GWU’s Mount Vernon Campus) Free and open to the public; free…
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…
Professor Jeffrey Cohen‘s new book Earth is featured as a GW Hatchet summer reading suggestion. Read all about it here, and find the book here or here.
GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him directly (jjcohen@gwu.edu) to be signed into the class (all it takes is the RTF form). The course meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. and is a small, seminar-type class that is…
We would like to clarify any erroneous information you may have encountered in the media regarding the Fall 2017 course to be taught by Senator Rand Paul in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS). Sen. Paul’s course is not an English course offering. The course does not count toward the English major, nor…
On a sunny and beautiful evening on Wednesday, April 5th, faculty, friends, and students gathered at the F Street House for a beautiful reception, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Jenny McKean Moore fund, hosted by GW President Steven Knapp and his wife, Diane. The event drew many whose lives’ have been touched by the…
Screening Shakespeare (ENGL 6260) Monday, 4:10-6:00 pm Professor Alexa Alice Joubin Fall 2017 Semester Shakespeare has been screened–projected on the silver screen and filtered by various ideologies—since 1899. What critical resources might we bring to the task of interpreting performances on film, television, in digital video, and as filmed theatre pieces? This seminar examines the adaptation…
Shakespeare on Film (ENGL3445) Mon/Wed 12:45-2:00 pm taught by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, offered this fall semester of 2017 Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted for the cinema since 1899 in multiple film genres, including silent film, film noire, Western, theatrical film, and Hollywood films. This course examines Shakespeare’s lesser-known romance play, histories, tragedies, and comedies…
Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel about his new book and we had an engaging and edifying conversation about the process of creating this now-tangible text: …
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Mishka Shubaly April 26th in Gelman 702, 7:30 PM Mishka Shubaly is a musician, memoirist, and marathoner who has written about his experience with “drink, drugs, disasters, desire, deception, and their aftermath,” as well as recovering from addiction and his new life in sobriety. The author of several Kindle Singles bestsellers, his work…
