Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang NPR has been asking poets to talk about their summers by reading their poems.  We’re pleased that our very own Professor Jennifer Chang was among the poets they chose. The interview begins with a brief discussion of a time when Professor Chang was asked to submit a poem to the New…

On the heels of Graduation 2013, we continue our new series “GW English Alums on the Move.”  We want to hear about your accomplishments and adventures!  Professor Margaret Soltan is the new Alumni Relations Coordinator for this blog; if you’re a GW English Alum, please don’t hesitate to send Professor Soltan your news at margaret.soltan@gmail.com…

  George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…

Stephanie Gardner (BA ’08) STEPHANIE GARDNER: ‘Soak up the world.  Really look, really listen.’ Since Stephanie Gardner graduated from our department, she’s been a busy and prolific filmmaker based in New York City. (You can check out her website here.)   We talked to her about film, literature, and her GW English department experience. You’re doing all sorts…

Gayle Wald wants you to know that her office door is always open. As the new department chair after January 1, 2010, Wald hopes to bridge the imaginary gap between faculty and students. “I want to engage the undergraduate majors. To give them a feeling of belonging to something through events and enhanced advising,” she…

Abby Dimen-Taylor GW English ’12 Abby Dimen-Taylor graduated from GW with an English major and a minor in Psychology as part of the class of 2012.  She graduated with Honors in English after completing a thesis on James Baldwin under the direction of Professor Jim Miller.  She very much enjoyed her time with GW English,…