Course Descriptions for Fall 2008
The course descriptions are online. Registration begins this week. Faculty will be holding extra office hours to lift holds and for advising.
The course descriptions are online. Registration begins this week. Faculty will be holding extra office hours to lift holds and for advising.
Daria-Ann Martineau is the winner of a $500 prize for her poem “Orchids.” The English Department congratulates senior Daria-Ann Martineau, a speech and hearing major and creative writing minor, for her poem “Orchids,” which won this year’s Student Poetry Prize, awarded to the best poem submitted by a student at George Washington University. Martineau’s poem,…
NEWS FLASH: GW English is proud to announce that the University is a major sponsor of the 2011 AWP Conference, to be held in Washington from February 2-5. The AWP, or Association of Writers & Writing Programs, is the country’s leading organization of creative writers and creative writing programs, and its annual conference—which takes place…
It’s National Poetry Month … and National Public Radio celebrated with a mention of GW’s own Jane Shore and her remarkable new book of poetry A Yes-Or-No Answer. From the NPR website: There’s blooming out — and darkening in — in Jane Shore’s collection, A Yes-Or-No Answer. This is a domestic book, filled with elegies…
Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, as a part of Prof. Faye Moskowitz’s Jewish Literature Live course, which works to bring in Jewish authors to speak. The film tells the story of the life and work of Grace…
For alumna, Katy DiSavino, being a playwright was not really a choice, it was in her blood. As the daughter of parents who own a theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, DiSavino has been acting since she was child. Determined to breakout of theater once she went to GW, DiSavino sat her parents down for the long…
Annual Report for 2008-09 Submitted by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Director Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor and Chair of English Leah Chang, Assistant Professor of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Holly Dugan, Assistant Professor of English Gil Harris, Professor of English Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English Jehangir Y. Malegam, Assistant Professor of…