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GW Impact: The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability
Chuck Frank, GW English BA ’74 GW English Alum Charles “Chuck” Frank (BA, 1974) was recently featured on the GW Impact blog for his important philanthrophic work, particularly his establishment of The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability. You can read the entire piece here. This excerpt provides a summary of Frank’s…

Shakespeare in the Mediterranean: Summer 2015
Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience. Venetian Canals Dubrovnik from the hills This is your opportunity to travel in his stead. Make the voyage to Venice and read Othello and the Merchant of Venice along its canals; journey to Verona and read about…

‘Key Things’ Blog Series
The Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to commission twelve short pieces for this year’s postgraduate blog series. Each piece will be paid, of around a thousand words in length, and – in a material turn for 2021/22 – take a single object or ‘key thing’ as both its title and point of departure….

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GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him directly (jjcohen@gwu.edu) to be signed into the class (all it takes is the RTF form). The course meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. and is a small, seminar-type class that is…

Exciting Fall 2013 Offering: Service-Learning with PEN/Faulkner
An exciting opportunity for interested students! This fall, GW English will continue our partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, specifically its “Writers in Schools” program. Writers in Schools has been running in DC for more than 20 yeas. It pairs writers with English (high school) classrooms, providing support to teachers and students and facilitating visits by writers to schools. Teachers,…