Memorial Service and Donations for James A. Miller
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| The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington |
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| The National City Christian Church is on the north side of Thomas Circle in NW Washington |
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…
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: After completing her undergraduate degree in English at GW, Kat Kirman will continue her studies as an MA student in American University’s Film Production program. Her love of cinema and writing has been profoundly enriched by GW’s English curriculum, and she hopes to continue this growth during her graduate career! Share…
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…
Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel about his new book and we had an engaging and edifying conversation about the process of creating this now-tangible text: …
Vinod Busjeet This year the Washington DC Jewish Community Center challenge was to write about a major world event that had an impact on your life.Vinod Busjeet has been named the winner of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Community Prize in the over 18 category. Busjeet is currently a proctor in Faye Moskowitz’s Advanced…
The English department is delighted to announce that Melissa Mogollon is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Prize for her poem “Salon.” David Meni is the winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets Prize for his set of poems titled “Intermezzo.” There was a robust set of entries for both prizes this…