Paula Mejia (BA, Creative Writing/English ’13, MA, English ’14) “I WROTE A BOOK – WHO KNOWS WHAT AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO, TOO” Paula Mejia started as an International Affairs major at GW, and then encountered our Creative Writing faculty — which changed everything. Margaret Soltan talks to her about it. Since you graduated from…
GW English Professors Daniel DeWispelare and David McAleavey (back row) and Jennifer Chang and Patty Chu (front row) flanked by University of Macau graduate students Four GW English Department faculty recently met with colleagues from the University of Macau’s English Department’s literature section to share expertise and experience, in the hope that further areas…
Gabe Muller (GW English Minor, ’13) with Diane von Furstenberg Gabe Muller, English Minor, Diane von Furstenberg Intimate Okay, maybe not intimate; but Gabe’s job at Atlantic Media certainly opens doors. He talks about it with Margaret Soltan. So, how did you go from being a humble English minor at GW to a guy who…
Jennifer Nelson (BA, ’88), Chair of the English Department at Gallaudet University and an English major during her time at GW, talks to Professor Margaret Soltan about the unique nature of Gallaudet, Professor Jennifer Nelson GW English BA, 1988 The Challenges of a Bilingual Campus: Jennifer Nelson Talks about Life at Gallaudet University Margaret Soltan: Let’s…
Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for more than 40 years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring…
Somehow, suddenly, it’s August again! We at GW English find it hard to believe that classes start three weeks from today, on Monday, August 29. Our faculty, as usual, has been hard at work over the summer, planning great courses for our students, and pursuing our research in numerous places around the world. We hope…
GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction. Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…
Professor Gayle Wald GW English is happy to announce that English and American Studies Professor Gayle Wald is one of the new editors for 33 1/3, a special book series about music and sound published by Bloomsbury Press. The particular series for which Professor Wald will be one of the editors publishes short books on albums from…
Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to GWU as a call for students to write about what it means to be “citizens” at GWU in a time of political/racial polarization. The Citizen Project emphasizes the importance of creating a space where student…
Please join us this Wednesday, April 6th, at the GW Textile Museum to hear Professor David McAleavey read from his new book of poems, Rock Taught. Rock Taught is Professor McAleavey’s sixth book of poems, preceded by Sterling 403; The Forty Days; Shrine, Shelter, Cave; Holding Obsidian; David McAleavey’s Greatest Hits 1971-2000, and Huge Haiku….
