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 |
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…
Meet our first Alumni Spotlight of the year: Jennifer Cheng! Jennifer studies English because it feels like a way for her to connect with people and stories she would otherwise be unable to access, thereby helping her connect more meaningfully with those around her. Jennifer Cheng received her Masters in Teaching through the NYU Teacher…
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). …
PhD student Ananya Bhardwaj Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library located in her birthplace, Patna, India, and studied the folio of Timurnama.
What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s new book on world literature and intercultural theater draws on theories of aesthetic humanism to explain the force of literature in globalization. The book is entitled Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. The aestheticization of politics in the twentieth century has structured political life as an…