Similar Posts
GW Impact: The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability
Chuck Frank, GW English BA ’74 GW English Alum Charles “Chuck” Frank (BA, 1974) was recently featured on the GW Impact blog for his important philanthrophic work, particularly his establishment of The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability. You can read the entire piece here. This excerpt provides a summary of Frank’s…
Fall 2016 Course: Literature of the Americas
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…
SPRING 2016 COURSES: Professor David McAleavey’s Poetry Explodes in America
Professor McAleavey’s Spring 2016 course: POETRY EXPLODES IN AMERICA (American Poetry II) ENGL 3621 This course examines important books by eleven American poets from throughout the 20th century, who collectively disrupt the continuity and traditions of English-language poetry, starting with the Georgian, even Horatian lyrics of Robert Frost (just before WW I) through the Modernist…
Fall 2016 Course: Vikings, Mongols, Moors
Note this NEW course being offered by Prof. Jonathan Hsy this fall! This course fulfills the pre-1700 requirement of the English major. Vikings, Mongols, Moors: A Global Middle Ages, Yesterday and Today ENGL 3830.10 (CRN 15259) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 9:35-10:50 Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Merlin, Vikings, Harry Potter: in popular…
It’s National Poetry Month & Famous GW Citizens Are Reading Poems!
April welcomes spring’s first flowers and the sustained bloom of National Poetry Month. It’s no coincidence that seeing with a brighter light—and feeling with a warmer disposition—redirects our attention to poems, wherein language becomes stranger, freer, and more like music. In the coming days, the students of Professor Jennifer Chang’s ENGL 2470 (Poetry Writing) course…
Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory
Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”