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 |
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…
Professor Jonathan Hsy has been awarded the first Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award. In her announcement of this new and prestigious award, Professor Rachel Riedner of the University Writing Program and Women’s Studies wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award this year is Jonathan…
GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction. Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…
http://lunchbuddiesplus.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/backtoschool.gif Now that we’re all settled in for the semester, and following the great turnout for the Inaugural Digital Humanities/Dean’s Scholar in Shakespeare lecture (delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library) we want to let you know a bit more about this blog and the upcoming semester. Samantha Yakas with Bruce Jay…
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…
Just in time for Christmas or Hanukkah: Sex and Disability, a collection of essays co-edited by Prof. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, will be published by Duke University Press on December 22. And it’s already making Top 10 lists! Here, DailyLoafing’s Shawn Alff calls it one of the “10…