English Department “On The Move”
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Izzy Cassandra-Newsam graduates with a degree in Creative Writing & English, after completing her fiction thesis under the guidance of Professor Annie Liontas. After this summer, she will return to her native Los Angeles to pursue a career in television. Thank you, Izzy, for everything you’ve provided the department, and…
Congratulations to English Professor Daniel DeWispelare and PhD Candidate Vicki Barnett Woods, who have both won awards for excellence within the Writing In the Disciplines program! They will be recognized for their accomplishments in the university-wide Faculty Honors Ceremony, on April 20th at 4:00 pm in the Jack Morton Auditorium, and will receive a…
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…
What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I…
Steve Hilmy is a rare breed of professor—insanely knowledgeable and the type that you’d want to go get a beer with because he’s so cool. If you speak to him for one second you realize this guy has more knowledge than you could potentially absorb in a lifetime. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Steve was then…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s new book on world literature and intercultural theater draws on theories of aesthetic humanism to explain the force of literature in globalization. The book is entitled Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. The aestheticization of politics in the twentieth century has structured political life as an…