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Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison

ByGWEnglish September 11, 2017October 6, 2021

The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jennifer Henderson will be our Communications Liaison for the 2017-2018 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jennifer will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog and Twitter.

Jennifer is pursuing both her B.A. and M.A. in English at GW. She is currently working on her senior thesis about Virginia Woolf and the construction of characters in Woolf’s novels. While Jennifer enjoys reading both for school and for pleasure, she also likes taking care of her twenty-five houseplants, going to galleries and museums in D.C., and trying new restaurants. In addition to her work as the Communications Liaison, she is also working in the English Department, so stop by and say hi!

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“Tell the internal and external naysayers to get lost”: an English Department Grad Goes to Film School

ByGWEnglish November 24, 2015October 6, 2021

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…

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Memorial Service and Donations for James A. Miller

ByGWEnglish August 28, 2015October 6, 2021

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….

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Margaret Soltan Comments on the Shkreli Case for Newsweek

ByGWEnglish December 19, 2015November 22, 2021

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…

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Kudos: Alumna Landed Teaching Job

ByGWEnglish February 22, 2012October 6, 2021

…. 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…

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GW English Professors on Twitter

ByGWEnglish January 24, 2015October 6, 2021

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…

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Distinguished Scholars Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk

ByGWEnglish May 1, 2013January 7, 2022

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…

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