The English Department: Are You a Member? Faculty and majors in the English Department look forward to hosting potential majors this Wednesday and Thursday from 4-6 PM each day. For the first time ever, the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences is holding their annual majors fair in the actual departments. That means that students…
ENGL 6260.10 Chaucerian Afterlives: Theory and Praxis Prof. Jonathan Hsy (jhsy@gwu.edu) Spring 2016 Monday 6:10-8pm This seminar explores the global reception history of Geoffrey Chaucer from his earliest English and French contemporaries to modern-day popular culture and digital media. Focusing on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, our class will “code-switch” between medieval and postmedieval frames of…
English 6450 Modernism, At Home and Abroad: Transnational Ties Spring 2016 Professor Chris Sten (csten@gwu.edu) W 4:10-6:00 pm Rome 771 This graduate seminar on Modernist writing, which is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike, will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Djuna…
Going home for Thanksgiving is always great, but somewhere in between passing the cranberry sauce and dessert, things can get a bit… difficult. Here are five questions English majors are tired of being asked. 1. Wow it must be nice to have such an easy course load. Oh yeah, preparing a presentation on Pericles, writing a…
EN 1611.10: Introduction to Black American Literature II, 20th-21st Century Professor Jennifer James T, TH: 12:45-2 PM “Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” –James Baldwin…
Jacques Derrida Critical Methods [newly named Introduction to Critical Theory] is one of the greatest classes I’ve taken at GW. The course involved quite a bit of reading, but every text taught me something new and made me reconsider and analyze the way I read, wrote, and thought. It’s the a class that I think…
Professor McAleavey’s Spring 2016 course: POETRY EXPLODES IN AMERICA (American Poetry II) ENGL 3621 This course examines important books by eleven American poets from throughout the 20th century, who collectively disrupt the continuity and traditions of English-language poetry, starting with the Georgian, even Horatian lyrics of Robert Frost (just before WW I) through the Modernist…
[Click banner image to enlarge] It’s pumpkin carving season! So it’s time for… Jack-O-Lit! Jack-O-Lit is our annual literary pumpkin carving event that is your opportunity to socialize with GW English faculty and librarians. Take a break from your studies and enjoy some food and good company. Date: Monday, October 26 Location: Kogan Plaza Time: 3-4:30pm…
Professor Holly Dugan reports on Shakespearean London, a short-term study abroad course that GW English will run again in the coming semester! Last March, my students and I travelled to London and Stratford as part of English 3446: Shakespearean London. We had the opportunity to study Shakespeare in some of the locations that defined his…
ENGL 3530 group examines a painting. The National Gallery of Art—one of the finest institutions of its kind on the globe—is a mile and a half away from the George Washington University Campus. The gallery’s physical and financial accessibility (it’s free!), peacefulness, and gorgeous collection demand a visit, which is one of several reasons that…
