Professors Mitchell and McRuer Receive Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewers
The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies |
The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies |
GW English Professor Jennifer Chang As we continue our Introducing New Faculty series, we’re excited to introduce you to Jennifer Chang, who will be joining us in the fall, in the Creative Writing Program, as an Assistant Professor of Poetry. Listed by former poet laureate Rita Dove as one of the young poets she is…
Kelsey Grashoff Joanna Falk This year’s departmental nominees for the university-wide Distinguished Scholar Award were Kelsey Grashoff and Joanna Falk. Both Kelsey and Joanna are honors students, producing significant work within the fields of masculinity studies and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Both have taken on challenging courses within and outside of the department; both have drawn on various…
For the past month or so, the English Department has been a flurry of boxes, files, and books as we’ve moved from the 7th floor of Rome to the 6th floor of Phillips. The move has made the location of the English department far more cohesive, with all the professors and offices now on one…
Meet our first Alumni Spotlight of the year: Jennifer Cheng! Jennifer studies English because it feels like a way for her to connect with people and stories she would otherwise be unable to access, thereby helping her connect more meaningfully with those around her. Jennifer Cheng received her Masters in Teaching through the NYU Teacher…
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….
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