Professor Jonathan Hsy has been awarded the first Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award. In her announcement of this new and prestigious award, Professor Rachel Riedner of the University Writing Program and Women’s Studies wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award this year is Jonathan…
The Knicknackery, a new literary magazine was started by Keren Veisblatt Toledano ’09 and Sonja Vitow ’09, former editors of GW literary publication le culte du moi. Keren and Sonja wrote in to describe their new venture: “THE KNICKNACKERY IS A COLLECTION OF SMALL, ECLECTIC THINGS. SO ARE WE. We’re looking for work that plays jump rope…
“In restrospect, I wouldn’t major in anything else”: we continue here our series reporting on GW English Alums and their successes. Writer Jack Sussek, who graduated from GW “when Washington was still a sleepy town, [and] when K Street was simply the name of a downtown street no more significant than G,” has published his…
From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England, a critically lauded study published by Early Modernist Jonathan Gil Harris. A native of New Zealand, Professor Harris joined our department as a full professor…
Beacon Press has just published a new book by Associate Professor of English Gayle Wald: Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Professor Wald teaches courses on African American literature, popular music, and U.S. culture in the department. Her previous book Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in 20th -Century U.S….
GW English alumnae Jennifer Nelson recently published the anthology Deaf American Prose with Gallaudet colleague Kristen Harmon. The collection is the first in a series called the Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series and promises to be a rich perspective to explore. Professor Harmon is an English professor and on loan as the Center Manager of Impact on Education and Disseminations for VL2, a…
