Professor Spotlight: Alexa Alice Joubin

Professor Spotlight: Alexa Alice Joubin

  Dr. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University, and founding co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute, has recently completed her latest work; Shakespeare & East Asia. This book is part of Oxford University Press’s Oxford Shakespeare Topics Series, and in it you’ll learn about Korean transgender cinema, East Asian…

Professor Spotlight: Christopher Sten

Professor Spotlight: Christopher Sten

  Professor of English Christopher Sten published his co-edited book “This Mighty Convulsion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War just last Fall! This collection of essays makes clear that “rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even…

Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu

Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu

  Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes…

Latinx Heritage Month Showcase

Latinx Heritage Month Showcase

 For Latinx Heritage Month, we are celebrating and showcasing the research of Prof. Antonio López, who works on Latinx literature and culture from the colonial era to the contemporary period. He is the author of “Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America” (New York: New York University Press, 2012). This book won Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Book Prize…

In Memoriam: Hache (H.G.) Carrillo

In Memoriam: Hache (H.G.) Carrillo

It is with great sadness that we announce that Hache (H.G.) Carrillo, a former professor of creative writing at GW English and Board Member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, passed away last week. Author of Loosing My Espanish (2005), and numerous works of short fiction, Carrillo’s oeuvre explores Afro-Cuban American immigrant experience and the complexities of…

GW’s Jennifer Chang Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award & Published in the New Yorker

GW’s Jennifer Chang Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award & Published in the New Yorker

Please join the English Department in congratulating our very own, Professor Jennifer Chang, on her most recent accomplishments! Professor Chang is this year’s Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Reward Recipient! This prestigious award is given to a single US poet who has published a book of their poetry via a small publishing house….