Novelist Tom Mallon Celebrates with Radio Host, Garrison Keillor
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…
Professor Michael Bérubé From October 25-30, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Michael Bérubé as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including…
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…
Andrew Kozma “GW was the place where I first dreamed myself as a writer.” GW English and Dramatic Literature Alum and poet Andrew Kozma recently had one of his poems selected for inclusion this year in The Best American Poetry. Professor Margaret Soltan caught up with Andrew to talk about poetry and pedagogy, and about…
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, …
Professor Jonathan Hsy has been awarded the first Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award. In her announcement of this new and prestigious award, Professor Rachel Riedner of the University Writing Program and Women’s Studies wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award this year is Jonathan…