For the past month or so, the English Department has been a flurry of boxes, files, and books as we’ve moved from the 7th floor of Rome to the 6th floor of Phillips. The move has made the location of the English department far more cohesive, with all the professors and offices now on one…
GW English Professor Margaret Soltan has provided some commentary for Newsweek on the Martin Shkreli case. Shkreli gained notoriety this year for dramatically increasing prices (by more than 5,000 percent) on life-saving drugs one his pharmaceutical company gained the license to those drugs. Shkreli is now facing criminal charges related to fraud and tried to…
Georgia Bobley grew up in New York and graduated from GWU with a BA in 2010 and an MA in 2015, both in English Literature. She now lives in Dubai where she is working with a team to launch the Middle Eastern outlets of the American websites SHOPSTYLE (e-commerce) and POPSUGAR (an editorial website). GW…
“I think we need to be really mindful. This is not only historic, all of us in this room, but this is divine intervention at its most astonishing. I am of a generation where this would not only be impossible but illegal.” Alexandra Billings _________________________ Written By M.W. Bychowski _________________________ On Nov 23rd, 2015, I…
GW English/Creative Writing Alum Mary Sette Mary Sette has taken her English/Creative Writing (with honors) GW degree and moved to film school at the University of Southern California. Professor Margaret Soltan recently talked to Mary about GW, USC, and her work in film. 1. Let’s start with the immediate present. Having recently graduated as an…
Professor Jennifer Chang is on the roster for the Library of Congress reading series at the beginning of December! Join the conversation about poetry and teenagers. Details below. Wednesday, December 2, 6:30 PM TEENS AND POETRY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Poets Jennifer Chang and Mark McMorris read selections of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation along…
Professor Thomas Mallon was recently featured on “The Writer’s Almanac:” http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20151102/ Today is the birthday of the man who said, “I am the worst prognosticator imaginable, and it’s a good thing I write about the past instead of the future.” That’s novelist and essayist Thomas Mallon (books by this author), born in Glen Cove, New…
Madeline Dennis-Yates, BA ’15 The work of Madeline Dennis-Yates, a May graduate of the English Department, was chosen for the final selection of both the Source Festival in June and the DC Shorts Film Festival which ended Sept. 20. Maddie’s play in the Source Festival was “A Bouquet a Day” a ten-minute play in which…
GW English Alum Nishi Chawla (PhD, 1996) NISHI CHAWLA: “A NATION SHOULD BE JUDGED BY HOW WELL IT RESPECTS ITS WOMEN.” Professor Margaret Soltan: Let’s start with the big news first. Your play, Indira, will be presented here in DC, at Spectrum Theater, on Oct 18 at 4 PM. Is this your first play? Give us a quick description…
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Virali Dave will be our Communications Liaison for the 2015-2016 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Virali will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Virali is pursuing a B.A. in English…
