GW English Alums on the Move: Christina Katopodis Offers Advice to English Majors Considering Graduate School
GW English Alum Christina Katopodis |
GW English Alum Christina Katopodis |
GW English Alum Yahia Lababidi (BA ’96) “IF THE POET HAS A ROLE, IT IS NOT TO INSTRUCT, BECAUSE PEOPLE DON’T NEED INSTRUCTION. THEY NEED REMINDERS.” Yahia Lababidi, an English major who graduated from GW in 1996, writes poetry and prose, some of it about his homeland, Egypt. In a recent National Public Radio interview, Lababidi, who…
By GW Student Reporter There was a tempest of sorts happening outside as I rushed over puddles and clumps of wet leaves to catch one of newly-arrived Alexa Alice Joubin’s courses entitled “Global Shakespeare.” The course title could easily be describing Alexa herself, a native of Taiwan, who first encountered a performance of the Bard’s…
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…
Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey from West Philadelphia,
Kelsey Grashoff Joanna Falk This year’s departmental nominees for the university-wide Distinguished Scholar Award were Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk. Both Kelsey and Joanna are honors students, producing significant work within the fields of masculinity studies and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Both have taken on challenging courses within and outside of the department; both have drawn on various…
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…