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Eva Hansen reflects on her time with the GW English Department The Practicality of Impracticality; Or, Why Being an English Major Was the Best Decision I Made in My Undergrad Career Eva Hansen “Oh… what do you plan to do with that?” This question, along with the skeptical intonation, is one…
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Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast with Professor Ayanna Thompson
GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson Professor Ayanna Thompson has been featured on the Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, available on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s website. “Our own voices with our own tongues”: Shakespeare in Black and White is available for listening here. The library’s website describes the podcast: ‘In one of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the…
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Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond…