Based on Edward P. Jones' stories, creative writing students curated a virtual Instagram tour of Washington DC as the city was in the 1950s and the city today.

Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”

     The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.” …

Congratulations to GW’s Creative Writing Program, which was picked by CreativeWritingEDU as the best Creative Writing Degree Program in the District of Columbia!

Screening Shakespeare

We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, with openly-licensed learning modules on mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.

‘Key Things’ Blog Series

The Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to commission twelve short pieces for this year’s postgraduate blog series. Each piece will …

In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW.     …

Take a course this summer, learn to analyze films, and fulfill the Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) requirements!  Professor Alexa Alice Joubin is offering ENGLISH …

Registration for Fall 2020 has begun! Course descriptions are now available at the links below. Undergraduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF …