GW English Fall 2020 Course Descriptions

Join us during our Open House to find out more about all the wonderful things you could do as an English major and our course offerings. Meet fellow students. Meet the professors. Share on FacebookTweet

English 179.60 took the department’s global focus quite literally this month. Professor Robert McRuer and thirteen students—including English majors Reed Cooley, Erica Manoatl, Colby Katz-Lapides, Jon Mahoney, and Jessica Rawlins—traveled to Prague on November 5 to spend a week at Mezipatra: the 9th Annual International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The class, “Transnational Film Studies…

As the Spring 2013 semester begins, we asked GW English PhD candidate Elizabeth Pittman, to reflect on her experiences teaching an innovative service learning course.  It was a successful semester, marking the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between GW English and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.  Her reflections on the course are included here. “Create dangerously for…

Dean’s Seminar, Spring 2013 ENG1000: Global Shakespeare  ||   Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin(Taught on Foggy Bottom) Course Description   The 2012 London Olympics and the multilingual World Shakespeare Festival brought global Shakespeares home to Britain. Beyond the English-speaking world, his plays and motifs are present in the performance cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Asia/Pacific,…

We are pleased to share that English Ph.D. candidate Farisa Khalid was awarded the competitive CCAS Dean’s Graduate Instructorship Award 2020, an award given by GWU’s College of Arts & Sciences  to “exceptional Ph.D. candidates the unique experience of designing and teaching their own undergraduate courses while obtaining financial support for their dissertation research.” Up…

Join us for an information session on this exciting GW English Summer Study Abroad course!  Read more about the course here. Summer Study Abroad: Shakespeare in the Mediterranean, May 18-June 4. Professors: Suzanne Miller, History; Katherine Keller, English Application Deadline: March 2, 2015 Information Session: Tuesday, February 17, 5:30-6:30pm, Marvin Center 506 Share on FacebookTweet