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Media Credit: Anne Wernikoff Professor Julia McCrossin looks into how authors use fat characters in literature and film. Fat studies has gained national attention but is still considered an “emerging” field of identity issues, she said. by Caitie DawHatchet Reporter A GW professor is making waves in an emerging field you may not know existed…

In the spring semester a number of seats will be reserved in our Introduction to Creative Writing classes and awarded via application. The form is below, and can also be picked up in the English Department main office.—————–Application for ENGL 81W Date: Name: School: Major (if any): Hours completed: E-mail: Phone: Choose one: [ ]…

This just in from Joseph Fisher, who earned his Ph.D. in English in May 2007: Since earning his degree, Joe writes, he has been “purchasing music in massive quantities—something I had to curtail during my years in graduate school. I have also used the very modest amount of spare time I have been granted since…

For the 2008-09 academic year, Professor Jonathan Gil Harris will be leaving his post at GW to assume his fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC.Prof. Gil Harris will be doing research at the Folger for his new book Shakespeare and Literary Theory, which has already been commissioned by Oxford University Press…

If you are a current GW undergraduate and you had the chance to meet our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi, would you please take this very brief survey? We’d be extremely grateful. Share on FacebookTweet

Thomas Mallon and his CW colleagues offer one-on-one instruction to to aspiring writers. This month’s E-magazine from Columbian College leads with two items about English: a piece about our Creative Writing program, which gives students one-on-one access to accomplished writers, including award winners Edward P. Jones, Thomas Mallon, and Jane Shore; and a piece about…