Gayle Wald’s New Book: It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
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Professor Wald’s latest book is available from Duke University Press |
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Professor Wald’s latest book is available from Duke University Press |
Please join us this Wednesday, April 6th, at the GW Textile Museum to hear Professor David McAleavey read from his new book of poems, Rock Taught. Rock Taught is Professor McAleavey’s sixth book of poems, preceded by Sterling 403; The Forty Days; Shrine, Shelter, Cave; Holding Obsidian; David McAleavey’s Greatest Hits 1971-2000, and Huge Haiku….
GW English Alum CJ Powell GW English Alum CJ Powell: “Two of the investment banking managing directors in Project Finance with whom I worked had Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Dance“ Like a lot of our department’s majors, CJ Powell (she was then CJ Hall) headed for New York City with an interest in…
Steve Hilmy is a rare breed of professor—insanely knowledgeable and the type that you’d want to go get a beer with because he’s so cool. If you speak to him for one second you realize this guy has more knowledge than you could potentially absorb in a lifetime. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Steve was then…
GW English Grad Dan Rudmann: “My not-so-secret goal is to assist in aligning the Mahābhārata with more university literature departments, in the same way that we work on Beowulf or Grettir’s Saga.” Dan Rudmann (BA ’05) Photo Credit: Tamara Becerra Valdez We caught up with Dan between his graduate study in Sanskrit and his work on his…
The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington A memorial service for Professor James A. Miller will be held tomorrow, August 29, 2015, at the National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle. The service will be held at 2:00 PM. Memorial donations in honor of James A….
Ireland’s Abbey Theatre In her first week as an intern in the literary department of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, Ania Soltan (who graduated from GW last year with an English major) has read and critiqued two plays submitted for possible performance at the Abbey; sat through the first read-through of a new comedy called Shush; attended a theater awards ceremony hosted by Ireland’s President Michael…