As the Spring 2013 semester begins, we asked GW English PhD candidate Elizabeth Pittman, to reflect on her experiences teaching an innovative service learning course. It was a successful semester, marking the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between GW English and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Her reflections on the course are included here. “Create dangerously for…
Dean’s Seminar, Spring 2013 ENG1000: Global Shakespeare || Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin(Taught on Foggy Bottom) Course Description The 2012 London Olympics and the multilingual World Shakespeare Festival brought global Shakespeares home to Britain. Beyond the English-speaking world, his plays and motifs are present in the performance cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Asia/Pacific,…
George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English are pleased to announce the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare, a signature program for undergraduate students directed by Alexa Alice Joubin. The program offers a select group of students a unique opportunity to explore the works of William Shakespeare in…
Spring 2012 is the first semester in which English will be offering ENGL 3965, a new topics course in Asian American Cultural Studies. Next semester, Prof. Patty Chu–known to many majors as our Director of Undergraduate Advising (she probably signed you up for the major!)–will be teaching the inaugural course under this new rubric. As…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…
With the Republican debates taking up most of media’s attention in the month of November, it seems fitting that GW should have its own debate—only, this one wasn’t political. Students from both Prof. Holly Dugan’s and Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare classes took to the stage in a debate concerning the protagonist of The Tempest—the topic…
The following policy about transfer of course credit for English majors goes into effect in the fall semester of 2009. The thinking behind the new rule is simple: taking an upper division English literature course at a local community college is likely not the same as taking an upper division English literature course at GW….
Course descriptions for fall semester upper-division English classes may be accessed here. Please keep these courses in mind when making your choices: (1) The Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar on the History of the Book. The application deadline is this Friday, March 27. This is a one of a kind course. Info and application View an…
To: English Majors From: Marshall Alcorn and Robert McRuer Re: ENGLISH HONORS January 23, 2009 Dear English Major, Welcome back to campus! You are warmly invited to apply to the English Department Honors Program. Department Honors offers a unique opportunity to participate in an intensive and supportive year-long program, comprising the fall and spring semesters…
English 179.60 took the department’s global focus quite literally this month. Professor Robert McRuer and thirteen students—including English majors Reed Cooley, Erica Manoatl, Colby Katz-Lapides, Jon Mahoney, and Jessica Rawlins—traveled to Prague on November 5 to spend a week at Mezipatra: the 9th Annual International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The class, “Transnational Film Studies…
