Student Poetry Contest Elicits 41 Entries

Congratulations to our 2010 graduates! I had the pleasure of marching with students at Saturday’s CCAS Celebration, which went amazingly smoothly, given the challenging logistics. (In the photos posted here, we’re in Funger Hall, eagerly awaiting the call to march into the Smith Center.) Most people’s names were pronounced correctly, and there were photo ops…

by J J Cohen From Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, writing in The Chronicle: The alleviation of human suffering, the restoration of opportunity, and the resurrection of confidence must be our top priorities. But the present crisis must not be the horizon of our thinking; our most immediate concerns…

From Mary Tabor‘s Intermediate Fiction 103 class comes this modular story from junior Sarah Krouse. (W)hole She had knitted a baby blanket for a child that was not her own. In the bottom right corner of her meticulously crafted yarn tapestry was an “L.” She could be a part of this. She bought her 1100…

This fall follow the progress of the students in Joe Fisher’s English 120 (Critical Methods) class via the innovative blog he has set up for the class. We’ll keep you posted on its progress Share on FacebookTweet

Here are two blogs by current GW students: one, two. Here is one from a former GW English major. Are there more? What else do GW English Blog readers read, and write? Share on FacebookTweet

Sophomore Mary Kate Sherwood is currently taking Professor Tammy Greenwood-Stewart’s Intermediate Fiction 103 class. Here is an excerpt from her her story “Price Check.” “Shut up,” grunted Cathy, trying to push herself up onto the checkout counter. She kicked a carton of cigarettes out from under the register, stepped onto its flimsy cardboard, and clambered…