Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison
GW English/Creative Writing Alum Mary Sette Mary Sette has taken her English/Creative Writing (with honors) GW degree and moved to film school at the University of Southern California. Professor Margaret Soltan recently talked to Mary about GW, USC, and her work in film. 1. Let’s start with the immediate present. Having recently graduated as an…
The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington A memorial service for Professor James A. Miller will be held tomorrow, August 29, 2015, at the National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle. The service will be held at 2:00 PM. Memorial donations in honor of James A….
GW English Professor Margaret Soltan has provided some commentary for Newsweek on the Martin Shkreli case. Shkreli gained notoriety this year for dramatically increasing prices (by more than 5,000 percent) on life-saving drugs one his pharmaceutical company gained the license to those drugs. Shkreli is now facing criminal charges related to fraud and tried to…
…. 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 Hsy tweets @Jonathan Hsy GW English is on Twitter! And we thought it might be useful to our readers, especially as the next Digital Humanities Symposium kicks off, to have a round-up of where to find us. Join us on Friday, January 30, for a Digital Humanities Symposium which in fact includes a few twitter…
Kelsey Grashoff Joanna Falk This year’s departmental nominees for the university-wide Distinguished Scholar Award were Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk. Both Kelsey and Joanna are honors students, producing significant work within the fields of masculinity studies and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Both have taken on challenging courses within and outside of the department; both have drawn on various…