Catch Ryan Cordell’s Recent Interview on NPR

Catch Ryan Cordell’s Recent Interview on NPR

Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media.  Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston.  He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s.  

GW English Alums on the Move: Jeffrey Gorsky Explores Jewish History in Spain

GW English Alums on the Move: Jeffrey Gorsky Explores Jewish History in Spain

Jeffrey Gorsky with his daughters Jeffrey Gorsky graduated with honors in English from GW in 1974; he went on to get a GW law degree and to pursue a varied career in the foreign service. Throughout his travels, his GW experience (especially his time in Judith Plotz’s classroom) stayed with him; and indeed he’s currently a…

GW English Alums on the Move: “Everyone always asks me if I was a journalism major …”

GW English Alums on the Move: “Everyone always asks me if I was a journalism major …”

… writes Chloe Rome, a recent GW English major who’s now working at CNN in Atlanta.  “Most people are surprised when I say I was an English major.  But my English degree gave me the shape and structure I needed to succeed in journalism.  I learned how to read something and think critically about it,…

Professor Kavita Daiya Speaks at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services

Professor Kavita Daiya Speaks at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services

GW English Professor Kavita Daiya  Prof. Kavita Daiya, who teaches postcolonial and South Asian American Literature and Cinema in the department recently was invited to give a talk at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services.  She is the author of Violent Belongings: Partition,Gender and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Temple UP, 2008; Delhi: Yoda Press, 2013). …

Katherine Bradshaw: Dean’s Scholar Interns at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Katherine Bradshaw: Dean’s Scholar Interns at Shakespeare Theatre Company

GW English Major Katherine Bradshaw During the summer, as well as during the academic year, our majors often serve as interns in a wide range of locations.  Classical Studies major, English minor, and Dean’s scholar Katherine Bradshaw recently sent us a summary of her experience in Summer 2013 as an intern for the Shakespeare Theatre…

GW English Alums on the Move: Jack Sussek’s Manhattan Affair

GW English Alums on the Move: Jack Sussek’s Manhattan Affair

“In restrospect, I wouldn’t major in anything else”: we continue here our series reporting on GW English Alums and their successes. Writer Jack Sussek, who graduated from GW “when Washington was still a sleepy town, [and] when K Street was simply the name of a downtown street no more significant than G,” has published his…

Michael Bérubé in Residence at GW as Wang Distinguished Professor

Michael Bérubé in Residence at GW as Wang Distinguished Professor

Professor Michael Bérubé From October 25-30, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Michael Bérubé as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence.  Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including…

GW English Alums on the Move: Sarah Kuczynski Gets Mellon Fellowship

GW English Alums on the Move: Sarah Kuczynski Gets Mellon Fellowship

Recent English department grad Sarah Kuczynski, who has just started a PhD program in English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been selected for a Mellon Fellowship there.  It provides a service-free first year and a service-free fifth year for dissertation writing with a stipend of $15, 200. In years two through four, …