Rachael Baird, our inaugural (and wonderful) Communications Liaison for the English Department, is now living in China. Check out her blog and get a glimpse of her life post-GW.
Here’s an invitation to other English majors, current and former: if you have a blog, drop me a line and let me know. We’ll feature a list of them here at the GW English site.
Jason Hipp writes: I currently work in the Development Department at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a fairly small, 15-staff person non-governmental organization (NGO) with headquarters in New York and regional offices in Buenos Aires and Johannesburg. Basically, I help to make sure that the organization can still operate financially, through any…
If you are a current undergraduate and have not yet submitted your application for our special “Screenwriting” (Jason Filardi) or “Fiction” (Edward P. Jones) courses (English 182 for spring 2009), please do so immediately. We hope to announce decisions by the end of the week. Due to a glitch, several people were allowed to register…
Carrie Cummings is a student in Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 2, 107W, class. Mother’s Arrival in Omaha, 1985 He peeled her off the canvas of a Klimt he saw in Paris,wrapped her up in brown paper– her red tendrils leaked from the edges –and shipped her home to meet his mother(who, upon her arrival, said,“the…
The English Department administers a biannual essay contest open to current GW freshmen, sophomores and juniors interested in parliamentary procedure. To enter, you must compose an essay of three to four hundred words on some aspect of parliamentary procedure as taught in Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised. The essay should be submitted under a…
Writer Randall Kenan Join the English Department in welcoming Randall Kenan, the last speaker in this fall’s Jenny McKean Moore readings series. Kenan will read from his work on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marvin Center, Room 310. Kenan’s fiction includes the novel A VISITATION OF SPIRITS and the short-story collection LET…
Do you ever wonder who is sitting in the front of the room taking attendance? Who is the TA leading your discussion section and grading your papers? As part of a new feature on the GW English Blog “Get to Know Your TA”, we will be interviewing the three Myths of Britain TAs Jessica, Nedda,…
