Professor Frederick Pollack Publishes New Poetry Collection
GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack |
GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack |
Professor Michael Bérubé From October 25-30, GW’s English Department is pleased to host Professor Michael Bérubé as this year’s Wang Distinguished Professor-in-Residence. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including…
A student enjoying the new space. Upon their return from winter break, English department students and faculty were greeted with a new lounge designed by Interior Design MA students Elise Katzif Walker and Laura Van Biber. Having never been to the previous lounge, and without any knowledge that there ever was one, I wasn’t sure…
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
Raising High & Waving Goodbye: After completing her undergraduate degree in English at GW, Kat Kirman will continue her studies as an MA student in American University’s Film Production program. Her love of cinema and writing has been profoundly enriched by GW’s English curriculum, and she hopes to continue this growth during her graduate career! Share…
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…
Read more here from the Washington Post’s feature article about creative writing professor Louis Bayard’s most recent novel Roosevelt’s Beast. Congratulations! Share on FacebookTweet