Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

Vice Provost and Dean of Student Affairs Peter Konwerski Reads a Poem As Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Konwerski is the chief student affairs officer for GW, managing a diverse staff of education professionals responsible for academic success; student academic engagement; parent engagement; and wellness, education, and prevention for GW undergraduate, graduate, and professional students….

GW English Alum Yahia Lababidi (BA ’96) “IF THE POET HAS A ROLE, IT IS NOT TO INSTRUCT, BECAUSE PEOPLE DON’T NEED INSTRUCTION.  THEY NEED REMINDERS.” Yahia Lababidi, an English major who graduated from GW in 1996, writes poetry and prose, some of it about his homeland, Egypt.   In a recent National Public Radio interview, Lababidi, who…

Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS.  Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.  Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…

…. to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (BA ’05), who is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. Magali just landed a position as assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. English alumna Magai Armallis-Tiseyra will be joining the faculty at the Univ. of Mississippi … to Prof. Holly Dugan, whose recent book The Ephemeral…