Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s.
Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey from West Philadelphia,
Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis 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 more than 40 years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring…
On the heels of Graduation 2013, we continue our new series “GW English Alums on the Move.” We want to hear about your accomplishments and adventures! Professor Margaret Soltan is the new Alumni Relations Coordinator for this blog; if you’re a GW English Alum, please don’t hesitate to send Professor Soltan your news at margaret.soltan@gmail.com…
Award-winning author Edward P. Jones has written stories that depicted life in the Antebellum South and the lives of working-class African Americans in Washington, D.C. Edward Paul Jones, a professor of English at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, has two books listed on the New York Times’s list of the 100…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. Alexa Alice Joubin…
PhD student Ananya Bhardwaj Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library located in her birthplace, Patna, India, and studied the folio of Timurnama.
