GW English Major Katherine Bradshaw During the summer, as well as during the academic year, our majors often serve as interns in a wide range of locations. Classical Studies major, English minor, and Dean’s scholar Katherine Bradshaw recently sent us a summary of her experience in Summer 2013 as an intern for the Shakespeare Theatre…
Join GW English and Creative Writing next Thursday at 7:30 PM for a reading by Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang. Professor Chang joined our faculty this year and teaches poetry in the Creative Writing Program. Check out our interview with her from last May here. And see you at the Honors Townhouse next week!
Professor Antonio López appears in the latest edition of “The Chronicle Review” for The Chronicle of Higher Education, reflecting on a number of recent scholarly publications on Cuba and race, focused especially on the situation of Afro-Cubans. Readers of this blog are already well-acquainted with Professor López’s work in the field, as his own eagerly-awaited…
“In restrospect, I wouldn’t major in anything else”: we continue here our series reporting on GW English Alums and their successes. Writer Jack Sussek, who graduated from GW “when Washington was still a sleepy town, [and] when K Street was simply the name of a downtown street no more significant than G,” has published his…
Vinod Busjeet This year the Washington DC Jewish Community Center challenge was to write about a major world event that had an impact on your life.Vinod Busjeet has been named the winner of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Community Prize in the over 18 category. Busjeet is currently a proctor in Faye Moskowitz’s Advanced…
The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival begins this Sunday and GW English is pleased to note that our alum David Bruce Smith (BA, 1979) is on the “Local Author Fair” roster for his new book American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States. John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice…
Professor Michael Bérubé From October 25-30, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Michael Bérubé as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including…
Recent English department grad Sarah Kuczynski, who has just started a PhD program in English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been selected for a Mellon Fellowship there. It provides a service-free first year and a service-free fifth year for dissertation writing with a stipend of $15, 200. In years two through four, …
We’re happy to share Jane Shore’s new poem, “This One,” now in both the print and online version of the current issue of The New Yorker! You can access the poem at The New Yorker’s website here.
Publishing Gone APE: What Can Publishers Learn from Self Publishing hosted by Washington Book Publishers Wednesday, September 25th at 6pm The best part of this event? It’s right on campus! The event will be held in Funger Hall room 108 http://socialmediacommunications.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/post-Ape.jpg Co-author Shawn Welch http://files.guykawasaki.com/images/headshots /full/shawn-welch.png Shawn Welch, co-author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur- How to…
