Professor Chang Reading at the Library of Congress

Professor Wald’s latest book is available from Duke University Press GW English and American Studies are very excited to announce that Professor Gayle Wald’s new book, It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke University Press), has just been released. The book examines Soul!, the first African American black variety television show on public…

English Dept. Secretary Linda Terry, Assistant Prof. Holly Dugan, and Office Manager Constance Kibler. It’s official! Prof. Holly Dugan’s The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England is out from The Johns Hopkins University Press! University of Michigan Prof. Michael Schoenfeldt calls it “[a] wonderful piece of work that will engage…

Ireland’s Abbey Theatre In her first week as an intern in the literary department of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, Ania Soltan (who graduated from GW last year with an English major) has read and critiqued two plays submitted for possible performance at the Abbey; sat through the first read-through of a new comedy called Shush; attended a theater awards ceremony hosted by Ireland’s President Michael…

Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Jordan Hutchinson, a 2021 GW English graduate, is currently working as an Editorial Intern for the New Jersey Digest (thedigestonline.com) and she will be putting out regular articles through mid-May. She has also written an article in the first ever physical copy of the Digest, which is linked on their website! …

For the last year, PhD student D. Gilson has been soliciting poems, essays, and artwork for a special collection from the academic journal Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies. In fact, this collection, titled Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed, brings together 154 writers and artists responding to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Gilson explains, “After reading…