GWU Department of English
GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 |
GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 |
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jennifer Henderson will be our Communications Liaison for the 2017-2018 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jennifer will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog and Twitter. Jennifer is pursuing both her B.A. and M.A. in…
http://lunchbuddiesplus.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/backtoschool.gif Now that we’re all settled in for the semester, and following the great turnout for the Inaugural Digital Humanities/Dean’s Scholar in Shakespeare lecture (delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library) we want to let you know a bit more about this blog and the upcoming semester. Samantha Yakas with Bruce Jay…
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…
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. Alexa Alice Joubin…
Photo Credit: Brooks Canaday/Northeastern University Ryan Cordell graduated from GW in 2004 and went on to the University of Virginia for graduate school in English. His interest in the digital humanities brought him to his current position, Assistant Professor of English at Boston’s Northeastern University, where he and various colleagues just won a grant from…