On the Road: Professor David McAleavey in Auckland
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David McAleavey and Witi Ihimaera |
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David McAleavey and Witi Ihimaera |
From the latest edition: Touring a National Treasure Alumnus shows students Library of Congress’ riches A tour of the Library of Congress allowed students to admire the building’s remarkable artwork and architecture. Photo by Rick Reinhard As they perused the personal collection of one of our nation’s founding fathers, GW students took a break from…
Vacation on Mount Desert Island Nina Gilden Seavey, Sunset on Bar Harbor, 2015 So where would we go for vacation in 2015? Various considerations set aside the old pattern of the northern Minnesota lake. My daughter Eleanor (GWU 2010) has been living for a while with her boyfriend Greg Fortier in Manhattan. Greg has…
On January 24-26, GW was the proud host of the university’s first Digital Humanities Symposium Patty Chu and Peter Feng After all the excitement, some of the symposium participants spoke about the purpose of the symposium, how they became involved, and what digital technology could mean for the future of multiple fields (such as our…
I rang in the new year in rural West Virginia, far from cell phone towers or, for that matter, a satellite connection to transmit images of the ball dropping in Times Square. Although I felt a bit disconnected from my annual TV ritual, the night sky was dark enough for star-watching, a rarity in Washington…
English major Jina Park published an essay in GW Hatchet in which she details how GW prepared her for the unexpected final semester of her college career due to the coronavirus situation. Jina is currently taking the Critical Theory seminar which explores many issues related to the current crisis. In her essay, Jina shared tips on how to manage…
WELCOME TO NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT GWU ENGLISH! The first National Poetry Month was in April 1996 and was started by The Academy of American Poets as a month-long celebration of poems. In April 1996, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago when my poetry professor, Elizabeth Alexander, tasked her students with creating…