GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. Alexa Alice Joubin…
Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as:
What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical?
Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Hailey Katzenberger from Oceanport, New Jersey! Hailey will be working as a paralegal assistant in a corporate law firm here in DC after she graduates in December.
Several English department graduate students and faculty were honored at the 12th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony on October 18, 2022 at George Washington University.
(Paris, AFP) All the world’s a stage but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. Thanks to frequently updated translations that dispense with the archaic Renaissance language, foreign audiences often find the Bard easier to follow. Take “King Lear”, a new version…
Join us for a screening of Ophelia, October 4th, from 1:00 – 3:30 pm in Corcoran 103
The 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day will take place in Gelman Library on October 6. Register here to attend the free event. The English Department’s Alexa Alice Joubin will be one of the speakers. She will address open-access tools to foster inclusiveness. There e are multiple ways to facilitate inclusion…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin is giving a WoW Talk today on Trans Studies and Why It Matters. Here is the Zoom link. All are welcome! The WoW Talks at George Washington University are 10-minute TED style presentations that offer snapshots of faculty’s latest research. In her talk, Professor Joubin…
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, with openly-licensed learning modules on mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US and UK, including Asian American works….
