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Oxford English Dictionary: Exalted rank or position; dignity, distinction |
An Exciting Fall 2017 English Course Offering: This exciting course links authors Toni Morrison and William Faulkner through the ways in which their fictional and discursive practices reflect on each other. Specifically, we will examine how the texts of both authors reenact and resist racism and patriarchal structures; how they explore the ways in which memory…
Registration for Fall 2020 has begun! Course descriptions are now available at the links below. Undergraduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc Graduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc. These Fall 2020 graduate course listings are also listed on the GW English website. Stay tuned for more information, and…
In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW. This six-course interdisciplinary minor draws upon Columbian College courses from English, American Studies, Theater and Dance, History, East Asian cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s studies, with the option to do…
Going home for Thanksgiving is always great, but somewhere in between passing the cranberry sauce and dessert, things can get a bit… difficult. Here are five questions English majors are tired of being asked. 1. Wow it must be nice to have such an easy course load. Oh yeah, preparing a presentation on Pericles, writing a…
Two Shakespeare Courses in Spring on Film and Race Come sharpen your skills of analyzing canonical stories the society tells about itself. The world is made up of stories. Stories full of sound and fury. Great stories are often strangers at home. One of the greatest storytellers is Shakespeare. His plays…
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn For the past ten years, GW English has offered a unique interdisciplinary in lgbtq studies and film studies; on Saturday, December 8, students from the class will come together to present their work-in-progress. Students from Professor Robert McRuer’s “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ cultures” (English 3980) will…