Haiku Contest Winners
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson We are happy to roll out a new series for this blog, Introducing New Faculty. Over the next few weeks, you’ll meet everyone who will be joining us in Fall 2013. The Department of English is ecstatic to have three new faculty members joining us in the fall, along with…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s new book on world literature and intercultural theater draws on theories of aesthetic humanism to explain the force of literature in globalization. The book is entitled Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. The aestheticization of politics in the twentieth century has structured political life as an…
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…
In a cautionary piece about teaching university-sponsored online courses, Times Higher Education (THE) quotes extensively from Professor Margaret Soltan’s remarks about the subject on her blog, University Diaries: “All sorts of eyes are peering into your online course. . . . Your students, naturally; but also university administrators, on-campus tech people, the for-profit firm your school has…
Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s. Share…
Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to GWU as a call for students to write about what it means to be “citizens” at GWU in a time of political/racial polarization. The Citizen Project emphasizes the importance of creating a space where student…