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A Letter from the Departing Chair of the English Department
Dear friends,It has been my pleasure to serve as chair of the GW English Department for the past three and a half years. Now that my term of service is coming to an end, I want to thank you for the support you’ve given me to make this time in office so enjoyable — and…
“My soul’s often wondered how I got over…”
As Jeffrey previously observed, GWU will be experiencing another inauguration tomorrow: that of the university’s first Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Literature. I can only hope that Mr. Jones, with his hand firm upon The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, does not flub the swearing in. With another new beginning at hand, it is…
Josie Price Wins Student Poetry Contest
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Josie Price has won the first annual Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Floor-Scrapers.” Josie will be awarded a prize of $500. We also expect her to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and/or a Pulitzer some day. The competition garnered forty-one excellent poems, and we…
Visiting Student from Egypt Receives Fellowship for Graduate Studies
Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the opportunity to host visiting students or scholars who come to DC to take advantage of the resources at GW and in the city at large. Naglaa Mahmoud, a visiting student from Al Minya…
Representing India
Speaking of Kavita Daiya, current undergraduates rejoice! After a long leave to research a book in India, Professor Daiya returns to teach this fall. Don’t miss this course: English 173Representing History: Nation and Romance in Contemporary Indian Literature and Cinema 11:10 am – 12:25 pm TR; Phillips Hall 510 This course explores the 20th and…
Margaret Soltan Blogs the NCAA
Professor Margaret Soltan has just returned from Nashville, where she covered the annual convention of the NCAA for the online newspaper Inside Higher Education. Soltan, who attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was delighted to be a member of the press corps, and especially delighted to take part in a press conference, during which…