Memorial Service and Donations for James A. Miller

 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…

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…

English Dept. Secretary Linda Terry, Assistant Prof. Holly Dugan, and Office Manager Constance Kibler. It’s official! Prof. Holly Dugan’s The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England is out from The Johns Hopkins University Press! University of Michigan Prof. Michael Schoenfeldt calls it “[a] wonderful piece of work that will engage…

“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for…

The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud. CCAS Haiku Contest Winners (2016) 1st Prize Winner Alicia Yeung CCAS Psychology Major Good morning Lincoln, Runners greet you at sunrise, You sit…

In the year 1988, poet and editor David Lehman started The Best American Poetry series. The guest editor of the anthology examines the collective output of large and small literary journals; from this the guest editor attempts to glean 75 poems. The sampling that is selected is representative of the “best” poems of that year….