Statement on Senator Rand Paul’s CCAS 3000 Course for GW Students
Marshall Alcorn (Chair, Department of English)
Marshall Alcorn (Chair, Department of English)
Disability Studies: Composing Disability, or Why Art Matters ENGL 3910.10 (CRN 14687) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 12:45-2 This course offers a gateway into the interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies, a burgeoning field that examines the wide cultural meanings of disability across time and space. Our main objective will be to interrogate varied and capacious perceptions…
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…
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…
Professor Holly Dugan reports on Shakespearean London, a short-term study abroad course that GW English will run again in the coming semester! Last March, my students and I travelled to London and Stratford as part of English 3446: Shakespearean London. We had the opportunity to study Shakespeare in some of the locations that defined his…
Professor McAleavey’s Spring 2016 course: POETRY EXPLODES IN AMERICA (American Poetry II) ENGL 3621 This course examines important books by eleven American poets from throughout the 20th century, who collectively disrupt the continuity and traditions of English-language poetry, starting with the Georgian, even Horatian lyrics of Robert Frost (just before WW I) through the Modernist…
In partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library, the George Washington University is pleased to offer a new seminar on Books and Early Modern Culture. The seminar is a one of a kind experience, offering undergraduates the chance to have reader’s privileges at the library and to utilize its world famous collection of Renaissance books. The…