Siegfried Huffnagle: Meet the New Communications Liaison
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At Stonehenge, 2014 |
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At Stonehenge, 2014 |
Professor of English Christopher Sten published his co-edited book “This Mighty Convulsion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War just last Fall! This collection of essays makes clear that “rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even…
Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 at George Washington University. Presenters considered the intersections of Shakespearean scholarship and globalization by exploring polyglot, multicultural, and marginalized portrayals of Shakespeare in the global market and international (digital) archives. Jason Demeter, a…
The English department is very pleased to introduce readers of this blog to our newest faculty member, Dr. Daniel DeWispelare, who will be joining us as an assistant professor in September. Prof. DeWispelare received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and does research primarily in the British nineteenth century, with a focus on Romanticism,…
Prof. Harris’s book collects his Sedgewick Memorial Lecture from 2011. Prof. Gil Harris has been on sabbatical this year, writing and doing research in India. But that doesn’t mean he has taken a hiatus in publishing. His newly released “Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise” is based on the Sedgewick…
Recently Prof. Robert McRuer was interviewed by “Pushing Limits,” a radio show by and for people with disabilities produced by KPFA in Berkeley, California. The show airs twice monthly in the Bay Area and is available as an online broadcast. The segment in question, which is available for listening here, focused on influential American…
This week saw news about three new (or forthcoming) books by alumni of the GW English department. Witchita (Europa Editions), the debut novel by GW alumnus Thad Ziolkowski, a professor and Writing Center coordinator at the Pratt Institute, received a warm review in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. “Whereas you might begin the book…