Here is some news from our British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster, where some faculty have been publishing new research and forging exciting institutional connections in the US, UK, India and Ireland. Jenny Green-Lewis is glad to say that her essay on Victorian photography and the novel, written for the new Oxford Handbook of the Victorian…
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative…
A view of Dublin Our first Academic Year 2013-2014 entry in our On the Road series comes from Assistant Professor Daniel DeWispelare: Research archives exist in diverse forms: some actual, some digital, others museal, or microfilmic, etc. And for a certain species of literary scholar, of which I am one, the physical archive is…
http://lunchbuddiesplus.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/backtoschool.gif Now that we’re all settled in for the semester, and following the great turnout for the Inaugural Digital Humanities/Dean’s Scholar in Shakespeare lecture (delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library) we want to let you know a bit more about this blog and the upcoming semester. Samantha Yakas with Bruce Jay…
MK Asante Don’t miss our Acting Director of Creative Writing, Professor Lisa Page, in conversation with MK Asante this month (September 17 at 7 PM) at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. This conversation is part of PEN/Faulkner’s Fall 2013 Literary Reading Series. Professor Page is former President of…
Welcome to Fall Semester 2013! On the Sunday before classes, members of the GW Faculty gathered at Department Chair Robert McRuer’s building downtown to kick things off and to welcome our new members: Professors Ayanna Thompson, David Mitchell, Jennifer Chang, and our Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Molly McCloskey. Director of Creative Writing Professor Lisa Page…
The debates about Massive Open Online Courses continues, and Professor Margaret Soltan continues to be sought after for her thoughts on the subject. She was recently featured talking about her Poetry MOOC in Poets and Writers Magazine: Soltan, who teaches a course through Udemy titled Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It, says…
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new Digital Humanities Institute, co-founded and co-directed by Alexa Alice Joubin and Jonathan Hsy. The inaugural Digital Humanities Institute lecture will be delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, whose work on data-mining and literary analysis will provide an entry point into a discussion…
In addition to the September 12 discussion with Marilee Lindemann and Ann Romines (4-6 PM, Marvin Center 301), Andrew Jewell will engage students and faculty in conversation about Digital Scholarship and Careers in the Humanities: Rome Hall 771, September 12, 2-3 PM. Sponsored by the new GW Digital Humanities Institute and GW English; mark your…
The Department of English is very happy to announce one of our first events for the Fall 2013 Semester. On September 12, 2013, from 4-6 PM, please join us in Marvin Center 301 for “No Longer Secret: Willa Cather’s Letters. A Conversation with Andrew Jewell and Marilee Lindemann.” This event will be moderated by our…
