Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison
GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds Recipient of the 2015 Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds has won this year’s prestigious Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award. The Amsterdam Teaching Award “was created to honor individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to GW teaching and to recognize the…
By GW Student Reporter There was a tempest of sorts happening outside as I rushed over puddles and clumps of wet leaves to catch one of newly-arrived Alexa Alice Joubin’s courses entitled “Global Shakespeare.” The course title could easily be describing Alexa herself, a native of Taiwan, who first encountered a performance of the Bard’s…
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…
It’s that lazy time of the summer–the spring semester has ended and the humidity is high. But we won’t let humidity get in the way of expressing our pride in our faculty and students. For your summer reading pleasure, three kudos: Prof. Jonathan’s Hsy’s book, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Ohio State University…
Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to GWU as a call for students to write about what it means to be “citizens” at GWU in a time of political/racial polarization. The Citizen Project emphasizes the importance of creating a space where student…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…