SIX days and counting

These days, I can barely keep up with the accolades being garnered by English Department faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Yesterday, we got the great good news that Prof. Judith Plotz is a winner of this year’s George Washington Award, one of the highest honors the University confers. I’ll blog more about Prof. Plotz, who…

Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. As many of you know, the G-PAC curriculum (the “PAC” is for “perspective,” “analysis,” and “communication”), which affects students entering GW in the fall of 2011, does away with the current General…

Professor and chair of the English department Jeffrey J. Cohen just presented from his book in progress at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. His public lecture was called “Through a Monster’s Eyes: The Landscape of Postcolonial England.” An analysis of the strange case of two green children discovered in Woolpit (England) in the twelfth…

This is an image that has been circulating online since last week, when The New Yorker magazine posted it on its blog. [Click here for a link to the White House Flickr site, where you can see a huge image of the same.] As an English professor and as someone who loves to be edited…

English Major Jessica Chace received a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Like GW’s Luther Rice fellowships, the Gamow Fellowship supports an undergraduate researcher in ways that allow her or him to work closely with a Faculty Mentor.  The working title of Jessica’s research project is “The Humor Defense: Laughter as Therapy in Ken…

Rachael Baird, our inaugural (and wonderful) Communications Liaison for the English Department, is now living in China. Check out her blog and get a glimpse of her life post-GW. Here’s an invitation to other English majors, current and former: if you have a blog, drop me a line and let me know. We’ll feature a…