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.
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…
Congratulations to Marissa Fretes, a freshman English major, for her op-ed piece in today’s Hatchet. In her editorial, Fretes argues that the University should not subordinate socioeconomic diversity to other diversity goals. Share on FacebookTweet
“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…
Professor Gayle Wald GW English is happy to announce that English and American Studies Professor Gayle Wald is one of the new editors for 33 1/3, a special book series about music and sound published by Bloomsbury Press. The particular series for which Professor Wald will be one of the editors publishes short books on albums from…
Shaun-Dae Clark Reads a Poem Shaun-Dae Clark is a second year student at The George Washington University. She works at Gelman Library and will be studying abroad at the London School of Economics this fall. -Justice Spencer, Nico Page, Marwa Roshan The Recitation The Interview interviewed by Justice Spencer Justice: Why did you choose the poem?…
Madeline Dennis-Yates, BA ’15 The work of Madeline Dennis-Yates, a May graduate of the English Department, was chosen for the final selection of both the Source Festival in June and the DC Shorts Film Festival which ended Sept. 20. Maddie’s play in the Source Festival was “A Bouquet a Day” a ten-minute play in which…
