Music Professor Steve Hilmy Reads a Poem
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…
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….
Professor Thomas Mallon was recently featured on “The Writer’s Almanac:” http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20151102/ Today is the birthday of the man who said, “I am the worst prognosticator imaginable, and it’s a good thing I write about the past instead of the future.” That’s novelist and essayist Thomas Mallon (books by this author), born in Glen Cove, New…
For the past month or so, the English Department has been a flurry of boxes, files, and books as we’ve moved from the 7th floor of Rome to the 6th floor of Phillips. The move has made the location of the English department far more cohesive, with all the professors and offices now on one…
Meet Abby Simard from Farmington, Connecticut! Abby has loved writing for as long as she can remember, and after taking some creative writing classes and getting to know the department here at GW, she couldn’t imagine majoring in anything else! Abby is currently working on her Creative Writing Honors Thesis in short fiction, which consists…
Courtney Wang (BA, ’07), second from left Lieutenant Junior Grade Courtney Wang, US Navy, has been deployed to conduct counter piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and in the Somali Basin; her work as a Surface Warfare Officer has taught her how to drive and fight warships and has taken her all over the…