Congratulations to GW’s Creative Writing Program, which was picked by CreativeWritingEDU as the best Creative Writing Degree Program in the District of Columbia!
“Disabled People and the Holocaust” class on site in Germany Professor David Mitchell’s course Disabled People and the Holocaust is featured in the latest CCAS E-Magazine. You can read the entire story here. Here are some excerpts: ‘Mitchell, who has a disability, first envisioned the course with women’s studies professor and research partner Sharon Snyder in…
The English department announces the launch of an exciting new course in Spring 2017! This new course is in film studies: in Spring 2017, students and alumni can learn more about the world’s most widely consumed popular cinema: Bollywood Cinema. From Coldplay and Beyonce’s music video “Hymn For the Weekend” to the Oscar-winning Danny Boyle film Slumdog…
English 6450 Modernism, At Home and Abroad: Transnational Ties Spring 2016 Professor Chris Sten (csten@gwu.edu) W 4:10-6:00 pm Rome 771 This graduate seminar on Modernist writing, which is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike, will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Djuna…
Dean’s Seminar, Spring 2013 ENG1000: Global Shakespeare || Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin(Taught on Foggy Bottom) Course Description The 2012 London Olympics and the multilingual World Shakespeare Festival brought global Shakespeares home to Britain. Beyond the English-speaking world, his plays and motifs are present in the performance cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Asia/Pacific,…
The 1992 film Basic Instinct and many other cultural texts and issues will be discussed Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field lgbt studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 10, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English…
