Chuck Frank, GW English BA ’74 GW English Alum Charles “Chuck” Frank (BA, 1974) was recently featured on the GW Impact blog for his important philanthrophic work, particularly his establishment of The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability. You can read the entire piece here. This excerpt provides a summary of Frank’s…
GW Students (and students in the consortium!): English 3980W, which is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Short-Term Study Abroad Office, will be offered again in Fall 2015. Interested students will need to register through an application process that can be accessed using this link to GW Study Abroad. This unique course has…
*The following blog was created by students in Professor Mitchell’s Dean’s Scholars in Globalization Class during Spring semester, 2015: “Disabled People and the Holocaust”. Each student has written an entry for exhibitions, museums, and memorials attended during a 10 day trip to Germany. The primary goal of our investigations was to examine the medical mass…
April welcomes spring’s first flowers and the sustained bloom of National Poetry Month. It’s no coincidence that seeing with a brighter light—and feeling with a warmer disposition—redirects our attention to poems, wherein language becomes stranger, freer, and more like music. In the coming days, the students of Professor Jennifer Chang’s ENGL 2470 (Poetry Writing) course…
“Disabled People and the Holocaust” class on site in Germany Professor David Mitchell’s course Disabled People and the Holocaust is featured in the latest CCAS E-Magazine. You can read the entire story here. Here are some excerpts: ‘Mitchell, who has a disability, first envisioned the course with women’s studies professor and research partner Sharon Snyder in…
On the eve of the first day of National Poetry Month, the English Department announces a dynamic new course on poetry. This course is ideal for students curious about the relationship between literary analysis and composition practices, and it can be taken to fulfill a requirement for Creative Writing majors (see below): The ABC’s of…
Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies. Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…
A course to consider for Fall 2015! Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) ENGLISH 3620.10 FALL 2015 American Poetry to WW I TR 4:45-6:00 CRN: TBA Room: TBA David McAleavey Rome 655 202-994-6515 Office Hours: TBA This course satisfies the CCAS Oral Communication G-PAC requirement. (Syllabus still subject to change.) General Description: This is…
There’s still a chance to follow Shakespeare to Italy and Croatia. Read our original blog post here. The deadline for Shakespeare in the Mediterranean (HIST 3001/ENGL 3450) has been EXTENDED until March 20th. Please go to the Study Abroad web page or contact the faculty directors Suzanne Miller – smmiller@gwu.edu and Katherine Keller – kzkeller@gwu.edu for more information.
GW English Majors: Oxford English Dictionary: Exalted rank or position; dignity, distinction We are now accepting applications for the English Department Honors Program for 2015-16. The program is designed to provide exceptional students with an opportunity to participate in a two-semester seminar culminating in an Honors thesis written in consultation with faculty advisors. English majors are…
