Why English audiences have the toughest time with Shakespeare

Why English audiences have the toughest time with Shakespeare

(Paris, AFP)      All the world’s a stage but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. Thanks to frequently updated translations that dispense with the archaic Renaissance language, foreign audiences often find the Bard easier to follow. Take “King Lear”, a new version…

GW University Teaching Day

GW University Teaching Day

The 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day will take place in Gelman Library on October 6. Register here to attend the free event.       The English Department’s Alexa Alice Joubin will be one of the speakers. She will address open-access tools to foster inclusiveness.       There e are multiple ways to facilitate inclusion…

New Books Network Podcast

New Books Network Podcast

Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US and UK, including Asian American works….

A poster showing a photo of author James Han Mattson and the cover of his novel reprieve. Mattson is of Korean descent, has short black hair and wears glasses. The cover for the novel is a painting from the aerial view, showing a large, ominous house and a car approaching it on a pathway.

Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series: Fiction Writer James Han Mattson

Author James Han Mattson will appear virtually to read from his newly released novel, Reprieve, and take part in a discussion about his work. James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received grants from the Copernicus Society of America and…

Jenny McKean Moore Reading – Nonfiction Writers: David and Margaret Talbot

Jenny McKean Moore Reading – Nonfiction Writers: David and Margaret Talbot

The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series presents two nonfiction writers: David and Margaret Talbot, on October 14th at 6:30 pm. Their book is By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. They will be in conversation with Professor Virginia Hartman.