Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship
PhD Candidate Lori Brister |
PhD Candidate Lori Brister |
… writes Chloe Rome, a recent GW English major who’s now working at CNN in Atlanta. “Most people are surprised when I say I was an English major. But my English degree gave me the shape and structure I needed to succeed in journalism. I learned how to read something and think critically about it,…
The English Department is thrilled to announce that Alexa Alice Joubin will be joining the English department this fall as Associate Professor. Alexa, who was educated in Taiwan and received her PhD from Stanford, is an internationally recognized expert on Shakespeare in Asia, Shakespeare and performance, and digital humanities. Her monograph, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries…
Read more here from the Washington Post’s feature article about creative writing professor Louis Bayard’s most recent novel Roosevelt’s Beast. Congratulations! Share on FacebookTweet
Professor Wald’s latest book is available from Duke University Press GW English and American Studies are very excited to announce that Professor Gayle Wald’s new book, It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke University Press), has just been released. The book examines Soul!, the first African American black variety television show on public…
GW English alumnae Jennifer Nelson recently published the anthology Deaf American Prose with Gallaudet colleague Kristen Harmon. The collection is the first in a series called the Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series and promises to be a rich perspective to explore. Professor Harmon is an English professor and on loan as the Center Manager of Impact on Education and Disseminations for VL2, a…
Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s. Share…