Margaret Soltan Comments on the Shkreli Case for Newsweek

Margaret Soltan Comments on the Shkreli Case for Newsweek

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…

GW Scholar of Trans Literature Goes to the White House

GW Scholar of Trans Literature Goes to the White House

“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…

“Tell the internal and external naysayers to get lost”: an English Department Grad Goes to Film School

“Tell the internal and external naysayers to get lost”: an English Department Grad Goes to Film School

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 Chang Reading at the Library of Congress

Professor Chang Reading at the Library of Congress

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…

Novelist Tom Mallon Celebrates with Radio Host, Garrison Keillor

Novelist Tom Mallon Celebrates with Radio Host, Garrison Keillor

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…

GW English Alums on the Move: Madeline Dennis-Yates

GW English Alums on the Move: Madeline Dennis-Yates

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 Alums on the Move: Playwright Nishi Chawla

GW English Alums on the Move: Playwright Nishi Chawla

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…