Summer Reading: Earth
Professor Jeffrey Cohen‘s new book Earth is featured as a GW Hatchet summer reading suggestion. Read all about it here, and find the book here or here.
GW President Steven Knapp hosts Jenny McKean Moore Reception at the F Street House
On a sunny and beautiful evening on Wednesday, April 5th, faculty, friends, and students gathered at the F Street House for a beautiful reception, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Jenny McKean Moore fund, hosted by GW President Steven Knapp and his wife, Diane. The event drew many whose lives’ have been touched by the…
A Day with Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in a Digital World
On Saturday, February 4th 2017, scholars, professors, and students from a wide range of disciplines came together within the newly renovated walls of The National Churchill Library & Center within The George Washington University’s Gelman Library to attend the GW Digital Humanities Institute’s 2017 Symposium: Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in…
Happy Thanksgiving from GW English
We at GW English hope that your Thanksgiving Break is a restful one surrounded by loved ones … and perhaps curled up with some of those books you’ve been wanting to read! We’ll see you next week.
Professor Ayanna Thompson in the New York Times
GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson The New York Times recently reported on Play On! a project sponsored by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival asking 36 playwrights from diverse backgrounds to translate the language of William Shakespeare into contemporary modern English. Our own Professor Ayanna Thompson was one of the dramaturges for the project, working with playwright Mfoniso…
On the Road: Doing Shakespeare While Black
Doing Shakespeare While Black? By Alexa Alice Joubin In Robeson’s Footsteps: Black and Asian Shakespeare Now, a conference organized by the University of Warwick, January 15, 2016. Race is an uncomfortable but important topic in our age of globalization. In the art and entertainment industry, race is both visible and invisible in various forms of embodiment….
6 Professors Share Their Grammatical Pet Peeves
Ever since my time on my high school newspaper, improper grammar has really irked me. For example, I’m a huge fan of the Oxford Comma. Also, I used to watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians and cringe anytime the characters said, “my sister and I” when the correct phrasing would have been, “my sister and…
DC Reads selection: Edward P. Jones’s All Aunt Hagar’s Children
One Book. One City. One Good Read. That is how DC Reads, a DC Public Library literacy program that promotes reading for pleasure by having citywide celebrations for teens and adults that focus on one book, opens its description of this year’s selection. Each year a new book is selected by a public nomination process. This…
An English Major’s Thoughts on Travel and Language
Madrid’s Plaza Mayor at night This semester, I’m taking a course on the British Romantic Period. In class a few weeks ago, my professor was talking about how although the seventeenth century was a period of greater international connectivity, there was also a simultaneous turn inwards, a growth in and shift towards nationalistic ideology. He…
On the Road: Professor Seavey on Mount Desert Island, Maine
Vacation on Mount Desert Island Nina Gilden Seavey, Sunset on Bar Harbor, 2015 So where would we go for vacation in 2015? Various considerations set aside the old pattern of the northern Minnesota lake. My daughter Eleanor (GWU 2010) has been living for a while with her boyfriend Greg Fortier in Manhattan. Greg has…