Congratulations to Professor Kavita Daiya, who has recently published her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India. Professor Daiya answered a few questions for me about her book, which should be of great interest to students of many disciplines, not just English. How did the research for Violent Belongings begin? Did the…
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jennifer Henderson will be our Communications Liaison for the 2017-2018 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jennifer will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog and Twitter. Jennifer is pursuing both her B.A. and M.A. in…
Alumna Zeina Mohammed shares insight on her experience as an English major “People Need English Majors”: Sitting Down with GW English Alumna Zeina Mohammed as told to Maryam Gilanshah, Creative Writing 2021 Why did you choose GW and Washington, D.C.? Why make that switch? Z: So my family actually lives in Washington DC….
GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 GW English and Creative Writing affirm that we are absolutely committed to fostering programs that recognize the value of studying all aspects of human experiences. Learning from and alongside student movements across the country that – as signs in Kogan Plaza have recently announced – say no…
“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for…
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative non-fiction…
