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Introducing Gregory Pardlo: GW’s Newest Poet & Professor
Stepping into Gregory Pardlo’s office is an odd, but charming combination of thrift store and art museum. Picasso adorns the wall as well as a salvaged window screen from Brooklyn. They are not just mere decorations, but help to explain some the fundamentals of GW’s newest creative writing professor. For Pardlo is not just a…
For Published Graduate Student GW Is Only the Next Step
For most graduate students, getting a PhD will be their greatest recent accomplishment. However when Tariq Al-Hayder came to study at GW he was not only a teacher, but a published novelist as well. Originally hailing from Saudi Arabia, Al-Hayder taught English at King Saud University in Riyadh for a year. Whether in the classroom…
Poetry Contest: $500 for Best Student Poem!
Happy memories of springtime daffodils? Brooding lines about “The dew that flies/Suicidal“? Sugary fluff that cools the longing for wordplay? Creepy verbal portraiture? We love it all. That’s why the GW English Department is pleased to announce our first annual Student Poetry Contest. Anyone can enter, and the prize (generously donated by a departmental supporter)…
Congratulations to our new PhDs!
I hope you will all join me in congratulating our new PhDs-all successfully defended their dissertations in the last couple of weeks. They are: Michelle Beissel-Heath, Matt Fullerty, Cathy Hamann, Almila Ozdek, Myra Remigio, and Niles Tomlinson. Well done, everyone! Tara Ghoshal WallaceAssociate Professor of EnglishDirector of Graduate Studies Share on FacebookTweet
GW Creative Writing Students Feature
For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…
Celebrating the New Semester With New Publications
While the blog took a hiatus over Winter Break, that did not mean those affiliated with the GW English Department also took time off. Instead our faculty and students started off 2010 with three new publications!Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a former Ph.D student, just published her work of historical fiction, Wench. Undergraduate Tarek Al-Hariri’s work was featured…