New Course in Cinema Studies: Bollywood Cinema

English 3980W Fall 2018 GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration! This course meets at GW all semester as a regular class but includes a short-term study abroad element: one week in Prague, Czech Republic, where we will meet with Czech students taking the same class in Prague and…
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…
On the eve of the first day of National Poetry Month, the English Department announces a dynamic new course on poetry. This course is ideal for students curious about the relationship between literary analysis and composition practices, and it can be taken to fulfill a requirement for Creative Writing majors (see below): The ABC’s of…
In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW. This six-course interdisciplinary minor draws upon Columbian College courses from English, American Studies, Theater and Dance, History, East Asian cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s studies, with the option to do…
Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies. Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…
English 3980W Fall 2018 GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration! This course meets at GW all semester as a regular class but includes a short-term study abroad element: one week in Prague, Czech Republic, where we will meet with Czech students taking the same class in Prague and…
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…
On the eve of the first day of National Poetry Month, the English Department announces a dynamic new course on poetry. This course is ideal for students curious about the relationship between literary analysis and composition practices, and it can be taken to fulfill a requirement for Creative Writing majors (see below): The ABC’s of…
In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW. This six-course interdisciplinary minor draws upon Columbian College courses from English, American Studies, Theater and Dance, History, East Asian cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s studies, with the option to do…
Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies. Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…
English 3980W Fall 2018 GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration! This course meets at GW all semester as a regular class but includes a short-term study abroad element: one week in Prague, Czech Republic, where we will meet with Czech students taking the same class in Prague and…
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…
On the eve of the first day of National Poetry Month, the English Department announces a dynamic new course on poetry. This course is ideal for students curious about the relationship between literary analysis and composition practices, and it can be taken to fulfill a requirement for Creative Writing majors (see below): The ABC’s of…
In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the opening of the new Asian American Studies minor at GW. This six-course interdisciplinary minor draws upon Columbian College courses from English, American Studies, Theater and Dance, History, East Asian cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s studies, with the option to do…
Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies. Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…
Recently we blogged about the news that RateMyProfessors.com may be a relatively reliable indication of students’ assessments of their professors, contrary to what some of us thought. Here is a teaching”assessment” of the old-fashioned sort. The subject is Assistant Prof. H.G. Carrillo. The author is senior Joe Mancinik, who officially closes out this semester as…