PhD Candidate Tawnya Ravy Selected for NEH Summer Institute
GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy |
GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy |
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Maryam Gilanshah is a Creative Writing/English graduate, specializing in fiction. Her work has been published in Paper Shell Review, Catfish Creek, & Zeniada. This semester, she produced “Fine Girl,” a collection of short stories centered around isolation, identity, & daughterhood for her thesis. Following her graduation, Maryam will study fiction at…
GW English Major Katherine Bradshaw During the summer, as well as during the academic year, our majors often serve as interns in a wide range of locations. Classical Studies major, English minor, and Dean’s scholar Katherine Bradshaw recently sent us a summary of her experience in Summer 2013 as an intern for the Shakespeare Theatre…
…. to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (BA ’05), who is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. Magali just landed a position as assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. English alumna Magai Armallis-Tiseyra will be joining the faculty at the Univ. of Mississippi … to Prof. Holly Dugan, whose recent book The Ephemeral…
Photo Credit: Brooks Canaday/Northeastern University Ryan Cordell graduated from GW in 2004 and went on to the University of Virginia for graduate school in English. His interest in the digital humanities brought him to his current position, Assistant Professor of English at Boston’s Northeastern University, where he and various colleagues just won a grant from…
What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I…
Joanna Falk, Class of 2013 “Consider everything that’s being said about the crisis of the humanities, but continue to study what you love.” In 2013, Joanna Falk double-majored in English and psychology, earning honors in both. We chatted with Joanna recently about the meaning and value of her English major, and about her current job…