Jane Shore, “This One,” in The New Yorker
We’re happy to share Jane Shore’s new poem, “This One,” now in both the print and online version of the current issue of The New Yorker!
You can access the poem at The New Yorker’s website here.
We’re happy to share Jane Shore’s new poem, “This One,” now in both the print and online version of the current issue of The New Yorker!
You can access the poem at The New Yorker’s website here.
Please join us this Wednesday, April 6th, at the GW Textile Museum to hear Professor David McAleavey read from his new book of poems, Rock Taught. Rock Taught is Professor McAleavey’s sixth book of poems, preceded by Sterling 403; The Forty Days; Shrine, Shelter, Cave; Holding Obsidian; David McAleavey’s Greatest Hits 1971-2000, and Huge Haiku….
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…
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Virali Dave will be our Communications Liaison for the 2015-2016 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Virali will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Virali is pursuing a B.A. in English…
Award-winning author Edward P. Jones has written stories that depicted life in the Antebellum South and the lives of working-class African Americans in Washington, D.C. Edward Paul Jones, a professor of English at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, has two books listed on the New York Times’s list of the 100…
Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes…
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). …