Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison

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…

Shaun-Dae Clark Reads a Poem Shaun-Dae Clark is a second year student at The George Washington University. She works at Gelman Library and will be studying abroad at the London School of Economics this fall. -Justice Spencer, Nico Page, Marwa Roshan The Recitation The Interview interviewed by Justice Spencer Justice: Why did you choose the poem?…

Alumna Zeina Mohammed shares insight on her experience as an English major “People Need English Majors”: Sitting Down with GW English Alumna Zeina Mohammed             as told to Maryam Gilanshah, Creative Writing 2021   Why did you choose GW and Washington, D.C.? Why make that switch?   Z: So my family actually lives in Washington DC….

The debates about Massive Open Online Courses continues, and Professor Margaret Soltan continues to be sought after for her thoughts on the subject.  She was recently featured talking about her Poetry MOOC in Poets and Writers Magazine:  Soltan, who teaches a course through Udemy titled Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It, says…

Joe when he is not in Foggy Bottom. Joe Mancinik, the new English Department communications intern, has a philosophy on life, which is as follows: everything that is usual is boring, or eventually becomes boring.  So everything that is unusual is outside of himself, since every morning he wakes up to himself, or at least very…

GW English Alum Nishi Chawla (PhD, 1996) NISHI CHAWLA: “A NATION SHOULD BE JUDGED BY HOW WELL IT RESPECTS ITS WOMEN.” Professor Margaret Soltan: Let’s start with the big news first.  Your play, Indira, will be presented here in DC, at Spectrum Theater, on Oct 18 at 4 PM.   Is this your first play?  Give us a quick description…