Fall 2017: Literature and the Environment

ENGL 6260.10 Chaucerian Afterlives: Theory and Praxis Prof. Jonathan Hsy (jhsy@gwu.edu) Spring 2016 Monday 6:10-8pm This seminar explores the global reception history of Geoffrey Chaucer from his earliest English and French contemporaries to modern-day popular culture and digital media. Focusing on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, our class will “code-switch” between medieval and postmedieval frames of…

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…

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…

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…