Hogarth, Beggar’s Opera GW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015. This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement. The Eighteenth Century: The Theatre of Politics, Sex, and Sentiment Professor Tara G. Wallace CRN: 47695 Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:50 AM In 1660, after two decades of Puritan rule, England regained its monarchy and its theatres, and…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…
Paul Cheney of MarketingExperiments The senior editor at MarketingExperiments, a Florida-based firm, recently wrote us to share why his company (and others) value English majors. Check out Paul Cheney’s guest blog below. Should You Major In English? 3 Highly Marketable Business Skills that English Majors Have in Spades I received my B.A. in English…
The English Department at George Washington University includes one of the largest all-undergraduate creative writing programs in the U.S. Each semester between 400 and 500 students study the writing of plays, filmscripts, short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in small, 15-person classes. About half of these courses are at the introductory level, and appeal to…
EN 1611.10: Introduction to Black American Literature II, 20th-21st Century Professor Jennifer James T, TH: 12:45-2 PM “Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” –James Baldwin…
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…
