Music Professor Steve Hilmy Reads a Poem
Stephanie Gardner (BA ’08) STEPHANIE GARDNER: ‘Soak up the world. Really look, really listen.’ Since Stephanie Gardner graduated from our department, she’s been a busy and prolific filmmaker based in New York City. (You can check out her website here.) We talked to her about film, literature, and her GW English department experience. You’re doing all sorts…
Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey from West Philadelphia,
Recent English department grad Sarah Kuczynski, who has just started a PhD program in English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been selected for a Mellon Fellowship there. It provides a service-free first year and a service-free fifth year for dissertation writing with a stipend of $15, 200. In years two through four, …
Last fall GW students Emily Holland (English major, ’16) and Morgan Baskin (International affairs, ’17) decided that they hadn’t found enough creative outlet in working for the Hatchet and decided to create a literary magazine. Influenced by their love of publications like The Paris Review but aware of their inaccessibility, their aim was to create…
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…
Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for more than 40 years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring…