Jordan Coggins: New Communications Liaison

Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Maryam Gilanshah is a Creative Writing/English graduate, specializing in fiction. Her work has been published in Paper Shell Review, Catfish Creek, & Zeniada. This semester, she produced “Fine Girl,” a collection of short stories centered around isolation, identity, & daughterhood for her thesis. Following her graduation, Maryam will study fiction at…

GW English Alum Esther Cohen (BA ’69) ESTHER COHEN ON NOT BEING AFRAID OF LIFE, OR OF YOUR OWN  WORDS New York writer, teacher, and activist Esther Cohen reflects on her time as an English major, and on the remarkably varied writing life she’s led since she graduated: When did you graduate from GW? I…

  Recently Prof. Robert McRuer was interviewed by “Pushing Limits,” a radio show by and for people with disabilities produced by KPFA in Berkeley, California. The show airs twice monthly in the Bay Area and is available as an online broadcast. The segment in question, which is available for listening here, focused on influential American…

Paula Mejia (BA, Creative Writing/English ’13, MA, English ’14) “I WROTE A BOOK – WHO  KNOWS WHAT AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO, TOO” Paula Mejia started as an International Affairs major at GW, and then encountered our Creative Writing faculty — which changed everything.  Margaret Soltan talks to her about it. Since you graduated from…

 For Latinx Heritage Month, we are celebrating and showcasing the research of Prof. Antonio López, who works on Latinx literature and culture from the colonial era to the contemporary period. He is the author of “Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America” (New York: New York University Press, 2012). This book won Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Book Prize…

A student enjoying the new space. Upon their return from winter break, English department students and faculty  were greeted with a new lounge designed by Interior Design MA students Elise Katzif Walker and Laura Van Biber. Having never been to the previous lounge, and without any knowledge that there ever was one, I wasn’t sure…