“Passing”: GWU’s Annual English Graduate Symposium
Director of Graduate Studies Tara Wallace responds to (L to R) Farisa Khalid, Brian Dumm, Emily Lathrop |
Julia Asami Smith, part of our undergraduate panel. |
Director of Graduate Studies Tara Wallace responds to (L to R) Farisa Khalid, Brian Dumm, Emily Lathrop |
Julia Asami Smith, part of our undergraduate panel. |
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US and UK, including Asian American works….
This is the inaugural post of On the Road, an occasional blog series about GW English Professors and their scholarly travel. In an age of Skype and video conferencing, travel to conferences or to other institutions remains an important way for scholars to share their work and learn about what their colleagues elsewhere are doing…
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…
Doing Shakespeare While Black? By Alexa Alice Joubin In Robeson’s Footsteps: Black and Asian Shakespeare Now, a conference organized by the University of Warwick, January 15, 2016. Race is an uncomfortable but important topic in our age of globalization. In the art and entertainment industry, race is both visible and invisible in various forms of embodiment….
We are pleased to announce that Composing Disability, GW’s biennial Disability Studies conference, returns on March 22-23, 2018. The full program will be posted soon, and the keynote for this event is UK-based artist-activist Liz Crow. Crow is the founder of Roaring Girl Productions and works with performance, film, audio, and text. Her work has…
Professor Tara Wallace was recently in attendance at the Boswell Book Festival at the Dumfries House, Ayrshire, Scotland. Described by organizers as “The World’s Only Festival of Biography & Memoir,” the event was held May 8-10, 2015. Before the official events, Professor Wallace spent some delightful time in the company of Margaret Boswell Elliot (a…