The Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to commission twelve short pieces for this year’s postgraduate blog series. Each piece will be paid, of around a thousand words in length, and – in a material turn for 2021/22 – take a single object or ‘key thing’ as both its title and point of departure….
In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW. This six-course interdisciplinary minor draws upon Columbian College courses from English, American Studies, Theater and Dance, History, East Asian cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s studies, with the option to do…
Take a course this summer, learn to analyze films, and fulfill the Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) requirements! Professor Alexa Alice Joubin is offering ENGLISH 3440W Shakespeare on Film in the first summer session (May 17 – June 23, 2021). See the course catalogue. SPECIAL FEATURES Films by people of color, women, and disability / LGTBTQ-identified actors Relevance…
Registration for Fall 2020 has begun! Course descriptions are now available at the links below. Undergraduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc Graduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc. These Fall 2020 graduate course listings are also listed on the GW English website. Stay tuned for more information, and…
We are pleased to share that English Ph.D. candidate Farisa Khalid was awarded the competitive CCAS Dean’s Graduate Instructorship Award 2020, an award given by GWU’s College of Arts & Sciences to “exceptional Ph.D. candidates the unique experience of designing and teaching their own undergraduate courses while obtaining financial support for their dissertation research.” Up…
English 3980W Fall 2018 GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration! This course meets at GW all semester as a regular class but includes a short-term study abroad element: one week in Prague, Czech Republic, where we will meet with Czech students taking the same class in Prague and…
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn For the past ten years, GW English has offered a unique interdisciplinary in lgbtq studies and film studies; on Saturday, December 8, students from the class will come together to present their work-in-progress. Students from Professor Robert McRuer’s “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ cultures” (English 3980) will…
This Fall 2018 Semester, The English Department will offer two courses, ENGL 3210: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf and ENGL 3551: The 19th Century British Novel. Each course dives deep into some of English literature’s most popular and enduring novels. Both courses are taught by Professor Jennifer Green-Lewis. ENGL 3210 – Readings in Creative Writing: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf…
Two Shakespeare Courses in Spring on Film and Race Come sharpen your skills of analyzing canonical stories the society tells about itself. The world is made up of stories. Stories full of sound and fury. Great stories are often strangers at home. One of the greatest storytellers is Shakespeare. His plays…
GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him directly (jjcohen@gwu.edu) to be signed into the class (all it takes is the RTF form). The course meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. and is a small, seminar-type class that is…
