Save the Date! GW English Fall Open House October 27

Hogarth, Beggar’s Opera GW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015.  This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement. The Eighteenth Century:  The Theatre of Politics, Sex, and Sentiment Professor Tara G. Wallace CRN: 47695 Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:50 AM In 1660, after two decades of Puritan rule, England regained its monarchy and its theatres, and…

GWU is gearing up to accept new applications to its MA and PhD programs in English. Due dates are early February and early January respectively. Please share with your most valued, prized undergraduate/graduate students looking to take up further research in our key areas of study including: Medieval and Early Modern Literature, British Postcolonialism, American…

With the Republican debates taking up most of media’s attention in the month of November,  it seems fitting that GW should have its own debate—only,  this one wasn’t political. Students from both Prof. Holly Dugan’s and Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare classes took to the stage in a debate concerning the protagonist of The Tempest—the topic…

Professor Mitchell Reading Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech Fall 2015 Graduate Seminar: Crip/Queer Theory Crip/Queer Theory charts out key intersections between Disability, Queer, and Critical Race Studies.  Our goal will be to mine the spaces between historically pathologized sexuality, ability, and racialized statuses. In particular we will focus on questions of “agential materialism” where one cannot…