Professor Frederick Pollack Publishes New Poetry Collection
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GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack |
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GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack |
Ryan Cordell (BA, 2004) was interviewed about the digital humanities on NPR’s On the Media. Ryan received his PhD at the University of Virginia, and is now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He was interviewed on Sunday, November 24, about his work with American newspaper articles that went viral back in the 1800s. Share…
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…
Congratulations to Professor Kavita Daiya, who has recently published her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India. Professor Daiya answered a few questions for me about her book, which should be of great interest to students of many disciplines, not just English. How did the research for Violent Belongings begin? Did the…
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…
The English department is very pleased to introduce readers of this blog to our newest faculty member, Dr. Daniel DeWispelare, who will be joining us as an assistant professor in September. Prof. DeWispelare received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and does research primarily in the British nineteenth century, with a focus on Romanticism,…
Meet Turni! She’s a Ph.D. candidate in the English department, who loves Arundhati Roy, our amazing GW English faculty, and presenting her work! If you haven’t caught her jumping from conference to conference, whether it be with the American Comparative Literature Association or Northeast Modern Language Association, swipe to learn more! Share on FacebookTweet