Congratulations to our new PhDs!
Well done, everyone!
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Well done, everyone!
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
From the latest edition: Renowned Writers Share Their Craft Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones began his GW professorship in January with a public reading of his novel The Known World. Last fall, English professors compiled a wish list of sorts: If they could have any modern literary great join the faculty, who would it…
Congratulations! Earlier this month, it was announced that Tammy Greenwood-Stewart was chosen for the Individual Artist Award for her fiction. The fiction category is offered every other year, and it was Tammy’s second time applying for the grant and her first time receiving the award. Here is a description of the award from the MSAC…
Quick pop quiz (answer “yes” or “no” only):1) Are you a genius at saying things in 140 characters or fewer?2) Are you interested in what’s going on in the English department, in English courses, among English professors and students, and in the wider GW English community?3) Do you want to feel even more connected to…
The last Medieval and Early Modern Seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, November 30th from 9-11 AM in Rome 771. Jehangir Malegam (GW History) will be presenting his paper entitled: No Peace for the Wicked: Conflicting Visions of Peacemaking in an Eleventh-Century Monastic Narrative As usual, please RSVP to me to receive…
If you have not yet applied for the screenwriting course with megasuccessful writer/producer Jason Filardi or the fiction course with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones, it is not too late — but please apply immediately! The form for these sections of 182 can be found here. We need your completed application as soon as…