Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison
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…
Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey from West Philadelphia,
GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy GW English congratulates PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy, who has been selected to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Tawnya, who has also been teaching as a member of the faculty at Northern Virginia Community College as she finishes her…
Professor Plotz’s Award Plaque Professor Emerita Judith Plotz UPDATE: Professor Emerita Judith Plotz has now received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, at a ceremony on June 20, 2015. She received a plaque that included images from Rudyard Kipling’s own illustrations to Just So Stories, a text which she has edited. The occasion was particularly memorable…
Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s. Share…
Professor Michael Bérubé From October 25-30, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Michael Bérubé as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including…