Jane Shore, “This One,” in The New Yorker

… on the birth of Zachary Adam yesterday morning. GW class of 2029! Share on FacebookTweet

“I think we need to be really mindful. This is not only historic, all of us in this room, but this is divine intervention at its most astonishing. I am of a generation where this would not only be impossible but illegal.” Alexandra Billings _________________________ Written By M.W. Bychowski _________________________ On Nov 23rd, 2015, I…

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…

GW English Professor Kavita Daiya  Prof. Kavita Daiya, who teaches postcolonial and South Asian American Literature and Cinema in the department recently was invited to give a talk at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services.  She is the author of Violent Belongings: Partition,Gender and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Temple UP, 2008; Delhi: Yoda Press, 2013). …

GW English alumnae Jennifer Nelson recently published the anthology Deaf American Prose with Gallaudet colleague Kristen Harmon.  The collection is the first in a series called the Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series and promises to be a rich perspective to explore.  Professor Harmon is an English professor and on loan as the Center Manager of Impact on Education and Disseminations for VL2, a…

In 2015, we profiled GW Alum Elizabeth Stephens as she published her first novel.  You can read that profile here.  She’s back this year with a follow-up novel, The Hunting Town.  An advance blurb for the novel describes it in this way: “Drugs, cartels, the mafia. Pain, greed, and revenge. When an unexpected murder brings…