SPRING 2016 COURSES: Professor Jennifer James’s Introduction to Black American Literature
April welcomes spring’s first flowers and the sustained bloom of National Poetry Month. It’s no coincidence that seeing with a brighter light—and feeling with a warmer disposition—redirects our attention to poems, wherein language becomes stranger, freer, and more like music. In the coming days, the students of Professor Jennifer Chang’s ENGL 2470 (Poetry Writing) course…
A course to consider for Fall 2015! Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) ENGLISH 3620.10 FALL 2015 American Poetry to WW I TR 4:45-6:00 CRN: TBA Room: TBA David McAleavey Rome 655 202-994-6515 Office Hours: TBA This course satisfies the CCAS Oral Communication G-PAC requirement. (Syllabus still subject to change.) General Description: This is…
Staying home this summer? Travel the globe with this Summer Online course: Eng 1710W CRN 91670 Professor Kavita Daiya Study modern global literature and cinema through the theme of travel and cross-cultural encounters. Encounter fiction, film, travel writing, music videos, and essays…
Spring 2012 is the first semester in which English will be offering ENGL 3965, a new topics course in Asian American Cultural Studies. Next semester, Prof. Patty Chu–known to many majors as our Director of Undergraduate Advising (she probably signed you up for the major!)–will be teaching the inaugural course under this new rubric. As…
The English Department at George Washington University includes one of the largest all-undergraduate creative writing programs in the U.S. Each semester between 400 and 500 students study the writing of plays, filmscripts, short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in small, 15-person classes. About half of these courses are at the introductory level, and appeal to…
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