Siegfried Huffnagle: Meet the New Communications Liaison
At Stonehenge, 2014 |
At Stonehenge, 2014 |
Professor Jonathan Hsy has been awarded the first Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award. In her announcement of this new and prestigious award, Professor Rachel Riedner of the University Writing Program and Women’s Studies wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award this year is Jonathan…
GW English PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy GW English congratulates PhD candidate Tawnya Ravy, who has been selected to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Tawnya, who has also been teaching as a member of the faculty at Northern Virginia Community College as she finishes her…
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to bring a poet, novelist, playwright, or creative…
Courtney Wang (BA, ’07), second from left Lieutenant Junior Grade Courtney Wang, US Navy, has been deployed to conduct counter piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and in the Somali Basin; her work as a Surface Warfare Officer has taught her how to drive and fight warships and has taken her all over the…
As President of the Residence Hall Association, Mike Massaroli is not only a junior studying Political Science, but he is a legitimate GW Celebrity. AND, he cares about poetry. Kenny Hoffman recently interviewed Mike about his favorite poem, Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat,” and how poems figure into the life of the RHA. THE…
Beacon Press has just published a new book by Associate Professor of English Gayle Wald: Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Professor Wald teaches courses on African American literature, popular music, and U.S. culture in the department. Her previous book Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in 20th -Century U.S….