Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Maryam Gilanshah is a Creative Writing/English graduate, specializing in fiction. Her work has been published in Paper Shell Review, Catfish Creek, & Zeniada. This semester, she produced “Fine Girl,” a collection of short stories centered around isolation, identity, & daughterhood for her thesis. Following her graduation, Maryam will study fiction at…
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: After completing her undergraduate degree in English at GW, Kat Kirman will continue her studies as an MA student in American University’s Film Production program. Her love of cinema and writing has been profoundly enriched by GW’s English curriculum, and she hopes to continue this growth during her graduate career!
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Jordan Hutchinson, a 2021 GW English graduate, is currently working as an Editorial Intern for the New Jersey Digest (thedigestonline.com) and she will be putting out regular articles through mid-May. She has also written an article in the first ever physical copy of the Digest, which is linked on their website!
An interactive session on fighting anti-Asian racism through film, led by Alexa Alice Joubin, on Friday May 21 at 3 pm eastern time. The event is free and open to the public. Sign up here. Direct Zoom link. To mark the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Heritage Month, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador and GW English professor…
Alumna Zeina Mohammed shares insight on her experience as an English major “People Need English Majors”: Sitting Down with GW English Alumna Zeina Mohammed as told to Maryam Gilanshah, Creative Writing 2021 Why did you choose GW and Washington, D.C.? Why make that switch? Z: So my family actually lives in Washington DC….
K. Tyler Christensen The final event in Contemporary LGBT Literature, following Jordy Rosenberg’s visit on April 22 (details here), is GW English’s own K. Tyler Christensen! Join students in the class on April 28 at 7 PM for an evening with Tyler. This is the final in a series of four “live” public events…
Jordy Rosenberg Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature April 22 at 7 PM for a reading with Jordy Rosenberg. This is the third in a series of “live” public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite here and you will receive Zoom links both the day…
Join the GW community on Thursday, April 15th from 12pm-2pm EST for the “Migration, Gender, and Rights in Comics and Literature: Linking the World” symposium! Hosted by GW’s Department of English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program, this symposium will explore how contemporary graphic narratives and fiction about South Asia, Syria, and the Caribbean…
Meet Turni! She’s a Ph.D. candidate in the English department, who loves Arundhati Roy, our amazing GW English faculty, and presenting her work! If you haven’t caught her jumping from conference to conference, whether it be with the American Comparative Literature Association or Northeast Modern Language Association, swipe to learn more!
What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I…
