In Memoriam: James A. Miller
Professor James A. Miller in his English Department office |
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Professor Miller’s 2011 interview with BookTV GWU |
Professor James A. Miller in his English Department office |
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Professor Miller’s 2011 interview with BookTV GWU |
Meet Turni! She’s a Ph.D. candidate in the English department, who loves Arundhati Roy, our amazing GW English faculty, and presenting her work! If you haven’t caught her jumping from conference to conference, whether it be with the American Comparative Literature Association or Northeast Modern Language Association, swipe to learn more! Share on FacebookTweet
Congratulations to Professor Kavita Daiya, who has recently published her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India. Professor Daiya answered a few questions for me about her book, which should be of great interest to students of many disciplines, not just English. How did the research for Violent Belongings begin? Did the…
Vice Provost and Dean of Student Affairs Peter Konwerski Reads a Poem As Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Konwerski is the chief student affairs officer for GW, managing a diverse staff of education professionals responsible for academic success; student academic engagement; parent engagement; and wellness, education, and prevention for GW undergraduate, graduate, and professional students….
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…
Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel about his new book and we had an engaging and edifying conversation about the process of creating this now-tangible text: …
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative non-fiction…