GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson We are happy to roll out a new series for this blog, Introducing New Faculty. Over the next few weeks, you’ll meet everyone who will be joining us in Fall 2013. The Department of English is ecstatic to have three new faculty members joining us in the fall, along with…
D. Gilson (center) with graduate students Maia Gil’Adi (left) and Rachel Obenschain (right) On Friday, PhD student D. Gilson won the Larry Neal Writers’ Competition in the poetry category. Each year, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents these awards to commemorate the artistic legacy and vision of cultural understanding of Larry Neal –…
Ireland’s Abbey Theatre In her first week as an intern in the literary department of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, Ania Soltan (who graduated from GW last year with an English major) has read and critiqued two plays submitted for possible performance at the Abbey; sat through the first read-through of a new comedy called Shush; attended a theater awards ceremony hosted by Ireland’s President Michael…
Kelsey Grashoff Joanna Falk This year’s departmental nominees for the university-wide Distinguished Scholar Award were Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk. Both Kelsey and Joanna are honors students, producing significant work within the fields of masculinity studies and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Both have taken on challenging courses within and outside of the department; both have drawn on various…
Tawnya Ravy Graduate student Tawnya Ravy has won a prestigious Summer Research Fellowship for 2013 from the Northeast Modern Languages Association. This fellowship will allow her to travel to Emory University in Atlanta to work in the newly opened Salman Rushdie Archive at the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library, and to conduct critical research for…
Professor Jonathan Hsy has been awarded the first Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award. In her announcement of this new and prestigious award, Professor Rachel Riedner of the University Writing Program and Women’s Studies wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award this year is Jonathan…
Andy, Kathryn, and their officiant Chris It’s almost Valentine’s Day and the English Department happened to notice that one of its very own alums, Kathryn Frazier, Class of 2003, is featured in the most recent edition of Colonial Cable: News for GW Alumni and Friends. Kathryn was married to Andy Stone (a GW Political Communication major,…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…
GW English extends a hearty congratulations to Professor Renee Calarco, whose play, The Religion Thing, was nominated for a 2013 Helen Hayes Award! Professor Calarco is nominated in the category of Outstanding New Play or Musical. Since 1983, the Helen Hayes Awards have recognized professional theater in the Washington, D.C. region. They are named for…
Professor Margaret Soltan is among those interviewed in today’s GW Hatchet, on the topic of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): “GW is on the verge of joining an online education revolution, following in the footsteps of elite universities that have over the past year launched hundreds of free online classes – open to anyone with…
