GW English/Creative Writing Alum Mary Sette Mary Sette has taken her English/Creative Writing (with honors) GW degree and moved to film school at the University of Southern California. Professor Margaret Soltan recently talked to Mary about GW, USC, and her work in film. 1. Let’s start with the immediate present. Having recently graduated as an…
EN 1611.10: Introduction to Black American Literature II, 20th-21st Century Professor Jennifer James T, TH: 12:45-2 PM “Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” –James Baldwin…
Professor Jennifer Chang is on the roster for the Library of Congress reading series at the beginning of December! Join the conversation about poetry and teenagers. Details below. Wednesday, December 2, 6:30 PM TEENS AND POETRY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Poets Jennifer Chang and Mark McMorris read selections of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation along…
Ever since my time on my high school newspaper, improper grammar has really irked me. For example, I’m a huge fan of the Oxford Comma. Also, I used to watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians and cringe anytime the characters said, “my sister and I” when the correct phrasing would have been, “my sister and…
Margaret Soltan was interviewed recently by Radio Poland, which asked her about her memories of Wojciech Fangor, Poland’s most important modern painter. You can access that interview via this link. Professor Soltan spoke with the New York Times confirming Fangor’s death; the obituary from October 25 can be accessed here. Soltan will also be giving…
Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 7:30PM in the Marvin center as the Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series features Kyle Dargan, who will read from his new collection of poetry, Honest Engine. Kyle Dargan is the Director of Creative Writing and an Associate Professor at…
Professor Thomas Mallon was recently featured on “The Writer’s Almanac:” http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20151102/ Today is the birthday of the man who said, “I am the worst prognosticator imaginable, and it’s a good thing I write about the past instead of the future.” That’s novelist and essayist Thomas Mallon (books by this author), born in Glen Cove, New…
Jacques Derrida Critical Methods [newly named Introduction to Critical Theory] is one of the greatest classes I’ve taken at GW. The course involved quite a bit of reading, but every text taught me something new and made me reconsider and analyze the way I read, wrote, and thought. It’s the a class that I think…
Professor McAleavey’s Spring 2016 course: POETRY EXPLODES IN AMERICA (American Poetry II) ENGL 3621 This course examines important books by eleven American poets from throughout the 20th century, who collectively disrupt the continuity and traditions of English-language poetry, starting with the Georgian, even Horatian lyrics of Robert Frost (just before WW I) through the Modernist…
Madeline Dennis-Yates, BA ’15 The work of Madeline Dennis-Yates, a May graduate of the English Department, was chosen for the final selection of both the Source Festival in June and the DC Shorts Film Festival which ended Sept. 20. Maddie’s play in the Source Festival was “A Bouquet a Day” a ten-minute play in which…
