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 |
Jennifer Nelson (BA, ’88), Chair of the English Department at Gallaudet University and an English major during her time at GW, talks to Professor Margaret Soltan about the unique nature of Gallaudet, Professor Jennifer Nelson GW English BA, 1988 The Challenges of a Bilingual Campus: Jennifer Nelson Talks about Life at Gallaudet University Margaret Soltan: Let’s…
GW English Professor Kavita Daiya Prof. Kavita Daiya, who teaches postcolonial and South Asian American Literature and Cinema in the department recently was invited to give a talk at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services. She is the author of Violent Belongings: Partition,Gender and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Temple UP, 2008; Delhi: Yoda Press, 2013). …
Georgia Bobley grew up in New York and graduated from GWU with a BA in 2010 and an MA in 2015, both in English Literature. She now lives in Dubai where she is working with a team to launch the Middle Eastern outlets of the American websites SHOPSTYLE (e-commerce) and POPSUGAR (an editorial website). GW…
Joanna Falk, Class of 2013 “Consider everything that’s being said about the crisis of the humanities, but continue to study what you love.” In 2013, Joanna Falk double-majored in English and psychology, earning honors in both. We chatted with Joanna recently about the meaning and value of her English major, and about her current job…
JMM Writer-in-Washington Kseniya Melnik Photo Credit: Morgan Demeter 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…
Congratulations to all members of the Class of 2014. This spring, GW English graduated 5 Ph.D. students, 5 M.A. students, and 84 B.A. students. We are proud of all of your hard work and your many accomplishments! Ph.D. students were “hooded” at a ceremony in the Smith Center on Thursday evening. The dark blue color…