Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to GWU as a call for students to write about what it means to be “citizens” at GWU in a time of political/racial polarization. The Citizen Project emphasizes the importance of creating a space where student…
Alexa will be spending the 2014-15 academic year in London. Alexa Alice Joubin has been named the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick for 2014-2015 and received the American Council of Learned Society’s Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship at the Folger Library for 2015-2016. She…
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman was published in 2015 GW English is happy to announce that Professor Jeffrey Cohen’s 2015 monograph Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman will be awarded the Réné Wellek Prize for the best book in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). The ACLA writes that the Réné…
Courtney Wang (BA, ’07), second from left Lieutenant Junior Grade Courtney Wang, US Navy, has been deployed to conduct counter piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and in the Somali Basin; her work as a Surface Warfare Officer has taught her how to drive and fight warships and has taken her all over the…
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…
Vinod Busjeet This year the Washington DC Jewish Community Center challenge was to write about a major world event that had an impact on your life.Vinod Busjeet has been named the winner of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Community Prize in the over 18 category. Busjeet is currently a proctor in Faye Moskowitz’s Advanced…
