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

…. to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (BA ’05), who is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. Magali just landed a position as assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. English alumna Magai Armallis-Tiseyra will be joining the faculty at the Univ. of Mississippi … to Prof. Holly Dugan, whose recent book The Ephemeral…

Professor McRuer in the late night sun of Copenhagen, Denmark August does have a way of sneaking up on us!  It’s hard to believe that classes at The George Washington University start three weeks from today, on Monday, August 31.  Our faculty, as usual, has been hard at work over the summer.  We’ve been 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…

GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction.  Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…

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

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…