Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Jordan Hutchinson, a 2021 GW English graduate, is currently working as an Editorial Intern for the New Jersey Digest (thedigestonline.com) and she will be putting out regular articles through mid-May. She has also written an article in the first ever physical copy of the Digest, which is linked on their website! …

Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for more than 40 years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring…

…. 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…

Andrew Kozma “GW was the place where I first dreamed myself as a writer.” GW English and Dramatic Literature Alum and poet Andrew Kozma recently had one of his poems selected for inclusion this year in The Best American Poetry.  Professor Margaret Soltan caught up with Andrew to talk about poetry and pedagogy, and about…

Congratulations to Marissa Fretes, a freshman English major, for her op-ed piece in today’s Hatchet. In her editorial, Fretes argues that the University should not subordinate socioeconomic diversity to other diversity goals. Share on FacebookTweet

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…