Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest!
Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest!
Professor James A. Miller in his English Department office The English Department is mourning the loss of Professor Jim Miller, our colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend, who died on June 19, after a year-long battle with cancer. Jim was a highly-respected scholar and beloved teacher in English, American Studies, and Africana Studies whose work focused on…
Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s. Share…
The English Department is thrilled to announce that Alexa Alice Joubin will be joining the English department this fall as Associate Professor. Alexa, who was educated in Taiwan and received her PhD from Stanford, is an internationally recognized expert on Shakespeare in Asia, Shakespeare and performance, and digital humanities. Her monograph, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries…
Alexi LeFevre (GWU ’05) Alexi LeFevre is a 2005 alum of The George Washington University. Although he studied international affairs, he describes himself as someone who has had a lifelong passion for creative writing. At GW, he pursued that passion in a formal setting for the first time. In the spring of 2003, Alexi took…
J. Grigsby Crawford, a 2008 GW graduate who minored in English, has published a book titled The Gringo: A Memoir, which chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Amazon. And it is far from your typical story of travel or life abroad. The Gringo—filled with a wide range of bizarre adventures—is…
GW English Professor David T. Mitchell GW English is already well known for work in Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry examining the meanings of disability in culture and history, interrogating ideas of normality, and continually imagining what a more accessible world might look like. We were thus very excited to search this year…