PhD Candidate Tawnya Ravy Selected for NEH Summer Institute
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GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy |
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GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy |
GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction. Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…
GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 GW English and Creative Writing affirm that we are absolutely committed to fostering programs that recognize the value of studying all aspects of human experiences. Learning from and alongside student movements across the country that – as signs in Kogan Plaza have recently announced – say no…
The English department is delighted to announce that Melissa Mogollon is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Prize for her poem “Salon.” David Meni is the winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets Prize for his set of poems titled “Intermezzo.” There was a robust set of entries for both prizes this…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative…
Alumna Zeina Mohammed shares insight on her experience as an English major “People Need English Majors”: Sitting Down with GW English Alumna Zeina Mohammed as told to Maryam Gilanshah, Creative Writing 2021 Why did you choose GW and Washington, D.C.? Why make that switch? Z: So my family actually lives in Washington DC….