Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page Thursday, January 21st, 2016 at 7 p.m. Free tickets here Kseniya Melnik, the 2015-2016 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at GWU, is the author of the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed…
January Edition of the Lowercase Reading Series: Tara Campbell, Koye Oyedeji, and Colin Dwyer I recently had the pleasure of attending the lowercase at Petworth Citizen, a monthly reading series hosted on the first Wednesday of every month by 826dc. The nonprofit was represented by Christina Mueller, a GWU English Major Alum, and Gus Caravalho,…
For the past month or so, the English Department has been a flurry of boxes, files, and books as we’ve moved from the 7th floor of Rome to the 6th floor of Phillips. The move has made the location of the English department far more cohesive, with all the professors and offices now on one…
GW English Professor Margaret Soltan has provided some commentary for Newsweek on the Martin Shkreli case. Shkreli gained notoriety this year for dramatically increasing prices (by more than 5,000 percent) on life-saving drugs one his pharmaceutical company gained the license to those drugs. Shkreli is now facing criminal charges related to fraud and tried to…
Georgia Bobley grew up in New York and graduated from GWU with a BA in 2010 and an MA in 2015, both in English Literature. She now lives in Dubai where she is working with a team to launch the Middle Eastern outlets of the American websites SHOPSTYLE (e-commerce) and POPSUGAR (an editorial website). GW…
ENGL 6260.10 Chaucerian Afterlives: Theory and Praxis Prof. Jonathan Hsy (jhsy@gwu.edu) Spring 2016 Monday 6:10-8pm This seminar explores the global reception history of Geoffrey Chaucer from his earliest English and French contemporaries to modern-day popular culture and digital media. Focusing on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, our class will “code-switch” between medieval and postmedieval frames of…
English 6450 Modernism, At Home and Abroad: Transnational Ties Spring 2016 Professor Chris Sten (csten@gwu.edu) W 4:10-6:00 pm Rome 771 This graduate seminar on Modernist writing, which is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike, will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Djuna…
“I think we need to be really mindful. This is not only historic, all of us in this room, but this is divine intervention at its most astonishing. I am of a generation where this would not only be impossible but illegal.” Alexandra Billings _________________________ Written By M.W. Bychowski _________________________ On Nov 23rd, 2015, I…
Transnational Queer Film Studies students and Professor Karen Tongson of USC in Prague Photo by Robert McRuer Professor Robert McRuer’s annual fall class, “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” was held again this fall. This was the seventh instantiation of the class, which is taught at GW every fall, but which is simultaneously taught in Prague to…
Going home for Thanksgiving is always great, but somewhere in between passing the cranberry sauce and dessert, things can get a bit… difficult. Here are five questions English majors are tired of being asked. 1. Wow it must be nice to have such an easy course load. Oh yeah, preparing a presentation on Pericles, writing a…
