After a long post-earthquake ’11 day today, I was tempted to give the Blog-a-Day idea a rest, but a backlog of faculty achievements makes this post easy to assemble. Some highlights of August faculty news: Prof. Jane Shore, whose “New and Selected Poems” comes out next year, is featured in the current issue of Ploughshares…
The English Department is thrilled to announce that Alexa Alice Joubin will be joining the English department this fall as Associate Professor. Alexa, who was educated in Taiwan and received her PhD from Stanford, is an internationally recognized expert on Shakespeare in Asia, Shakespeare and performance, and digital humanities. Her monograph, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries…
This is one of those weekends when it’s good to be a book lover in Washington, DC. The 10th annual National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress, is Saturday, Sept. 25 on the National Mall, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Billed as “a celebration of the joy of reading for all ages,”…
In the year 1988, poet and editor David Lehman started The Best American Poetry series. The guest editor of the anthology examines the collective output of large and small literary journals; from this the guest editor attempts to glean 75 poems. The sampling that is selected is representative of the “best” poems of that year….
[Bagel photos by Tess Malone. Photo of Connie Kibler & Tess Malone by Jeffrey Cohen] Shouldn’t you be in Rome 760 right now? You should be sitting in that third chair in the photo. Enjoying a delicious bagel provided by the wonderful Gayle Wald, wearing your incredibly dorky, but awesome English t-shirt, and generally reveling…
The room was packed. Students watched as the head of the Creative Writing Department, Faye Moskowitz, ran around trying to find enough chairs to seat all 225 people who came to last night’s final reading featuring professors Ramola D and Gina Welch. The event is a record in not just the Creative Writing Department’s history,…
Gayle Wald wants you to know that her office door is always open. As the new department chair after January 1, 2010, Wald hopes to bridge the imaginary gap between faculty and students. “I want to engage the undergraduate majors. To give them a feeling of belonging to something through events and enhanced advising,” she…
Congratulations to Professor Kavita Daiya, who has recently published her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India. Professor Daiya answered a few questions for me about her book, which should be of great interest to students of many disciplines, not just English. How did the research for Violent Belongings begin? Did the…
… on the birth of Zachary Adam yesterday morning. GW class of 2029!
From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England, a critically lauded study published by Early Modernist Jonathan Gil Harris. A native of New Zealand, Professor Harris joined our department as a full professor…
