Save the Date! GW English Fall Open House October 27
Join us during our Open House to find out more about all the wonderful things you could do as an English major and our course offerings. Meet fellow students. Meet the professors.
Similar Posts
Dean’s Seminar with Professor Schreiber: What’s New About Plays?
This Dean’s seminar takes advantage of the theater offerings in Washington and asks the question: What is new about new plays? Are contemporary playwrights reworking classical themes or are their works entirely new entities? What themes reappear and how are they presented? The course also considers how classical plays are re-imagined for modern audiences. …
Screening Shakespeare
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, with openly-licensed learning modules on mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.
What Can You Do With An English Major?
Paul Cheney of MarketingExperiments The senior editor at MarketingExperiments, a Florida-based firm, recently wrote us to share why his company (and others) value English majors. Check out Paul Cheney’s guest blog below. Should You Major In English? 3 Highly Marketable Business Skills that English Majors Have in Spades I received my B.A. in English…
Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory
Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”
Fall 2017: Literature and the Environment
This seminar explores how the nonhuman world is depicted in literature and film, and the value of sustained attentiveness to environments with these works and within the larger world. Share on FacebookTweet
Literature & the Environment
GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him directly (jjcohen@gwu.edu) to be signed into the class (all it takes is the RTF form). The course meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. and is a small, seminar-type class that is…
