Distinguished Scholars Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk
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Joanna Falk |
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Kelsey Grashoff |
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Joanna Falk |
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. Alexa Alice Joubin…
GW English Professor Jennifer Chang As we continue our Introducing New Faculty series, we’re excited to introduce you to Jennifer Chang, who will be joining us in the fall, in the Creative Writing Program, as an Assistant Professor of Poetry. Listed by former poet laureate Rita Dove as one of the young poets she is…
Avra Bossov is a senior in GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs, majoring in Political Communications with minors in Sustainability and Mind-Brain Studies. In addition to her past involvement with House Staff, APO, and Alternative Breaks, Avra currently serves as the Executive Vice President of GW’s Student Association. In honor of National Poetry Month,…
Joe when he is not in Foggy Bottom. Joe Mancinik, the new English Department communications intern, has a philosophy on life, which is as follows: everything that is usual is boring, or eventually becomes boring. So everything that is unusual is outside of himself, since every morning he wakes up to himself, or at least very…
From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England, a critically lauded study published by Early Modernist Jonathan Gil Harris. A native of New Zealand, Professor Harris joined our department as a full professor…
By GW Student Reporter There was a tempest of sorts happening outside as I rushed over puddles and clumps of wet leaves to catch one of newly-arrived Alexa Alice Joubin’s courses entitled “Global Shakespeare.” The course title could easily be describing Alexa herself, a native of Taiwan, who first encountered a performance of the Bard’s…