Book Launch Celebration for José Esteban Muñoz

Dear friends,It has been my pleasure to serve as chair of the GW English Department for the past three and a half years. Now that my term of service is coming to an end, I want to thank you for the support you’ve given me to make this time in office so enjoyable — and…

Our very own Dr. Matt Fullerty (English Ph.D. 2008) has begun a new tenure-track position at Chowan University in North Carolina teaching Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) and Composition. In spring 2013 he will teach English and American literature as well as an upper-level fiction class. GW students do not fear; Dr. Fullerty continues to teach at GW…

… its recent benevolent, awesome, outstanding, pure of heart, righteous, sophisticated, godlike donors. Among those who have contributed to our department’s mission recently are: Courtney Wang (2007) Olga Tsyganova (2007) Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) I find it especially heartening when our recent alumni donate — especially because I suspect they are still paying off their…

My name is Tess Malone and I am a sophomore at GW majoring in English. This is what I have been filling out on every index card my professors pass out during our first class. Of course it really tells you nothing about me, the new Communications Liaison Intern, and definitely does not suffice for…

Kwame Alexander’s And Then You KnowNew and Selected Poems at Gelman Library’s Special Collections Research CenterPoetry Reading and Reception On April 9 from 7 PM to 9 PM, the Special Collections Research Center of the Gelman Library invites the community to a poetry reading and reception celebrating the publication of Washington poet Kwame Alexander‘s And…

I graduated GW University in May of 2007. During that period in which most of the seniors (including myself) were thinking, “What am I going to do now?” I began to look into going to Chile to teach English. I had studied in Santiago, Chile for a semester my junior year, and had friends there…