Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

This week saw news about three new (or forthcoming) books by alumni of the GW English department.  Witchita (Europa Editions), the debut novel by GW alumnus Thad Ziolkowski, a professor and Writing Center coordinator at the Pratt Institute, received a warm review in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. “Whereas you might begin the book…

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…

This is one of those weekends when it’s good to be a book lover in Washington, DC. The 10th annual National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress, is Saturday, Sept. 25 on the National Mall, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Billed as “a celebration of the joy of reading for all ages,”…

The debates about Massive Open Online Courses continues, and Professor Margaret Soltan continues to be sought after for her thoughts on the subject.  She was recently featured talking about her Poetry MOOC in Poets and Writers Magazine:  Soltan, who teaches a course through Udemy titled Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It, says…

 For Latinx Heritage Month, we are celebrating and showcasing the research of Prof. Antonio López, who works on Latinx literature and culture from the colonial era to the contemporary period. He is the author of “Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America” (New York: New York University Press, 2012). This book won Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Book Prize…