Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate Pramila Venkateswaran Professor Pramila Venkateswaran, who received her PhD from GW’s English Department in 1988, recently became the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York. We chatted with Professor Venkateswaran about her selection as laureate, her poetry, and her memories of the GW English department: 1. When did you graduate…
GW English Alum Esther Cohen (BA ’69) ESTHER COHEN ON NOT BEING AFRAID OF LIFE, OR OF YOUR OWN WORDS New York writer, teacher, and activist Esther Cohen reflects on her time as an English major, and on the remarkably varied writing life she’s led since she graduated: When did you graduate from GW? I…
Abby Dimen-Taylor GW English ’12 Abby Dimen-Taylor graduated from GW with an English major and a minor in Psychology as part of the class of 2012. She graduated with Honors in English after completing a thesis on James Baldwin under the direction of Professor Jim Miller. She very much enjoyed her time with GW English,…
GW English Grad Dan Rudmann: “My not-so-secret goal is to assist in aligning the Mahābhārata with more university literature departments, in the same way that we work on Beowulf or Grettir’s Saga.” Dan Rudmann (BA ’05) Photo Credit: Tamara Becerra Valdez We caught up with Dan between his graduate study in Sanskrit and his work on his…
For the last year, PhD student D. Gilson has been soliciting poems, essays, and artwork for a special collection from the academic journal Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies. In fact, this collection, titled Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed, brings together 154 writers and artists responding to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Gilson explains, “After reading…
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jordan Coggins will be our Communications Liaison for the 2014-2015 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jordan will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Jordan is pursuing a B.A. in English…
Joanna Falk, Class of 2013 “Consider everything that’s being said about the crisis of the humanities, but continue to study what you love.” In 2013, Joanna Falk double-majored in English and psychology, earning honors in both. We chatted with Joanna recently about the meaning and value of her English major, and about her current job…
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 almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative non-fiction…
Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang NPR has been asking poets to talk about their summers by reading their poems. We’re pleased that our very own Professor Jennifer Chang was among the poets they chose. The interview begins with a brief discussion of a time when Professor Chang was asked to submit a poem to the New…
It’s that lazy time of the summer–the spring semester has ended and the humidity is high. But we won’t let humidity get in the way of expressing our pride in our faculty and students. For your summer reading pleasure, three kudos: Prof. Jonathan’s Hsy’s book, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Ohio State University…
