Senior Spotlight: Hailey Katzenberger
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.
Graduate Students and Faculty Honored
Several English department graduate students and faculty were honored at the 12th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony on October 18, 2022 at George Washington University.
Why English audiences have the toughest time with Shakespeare
(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…
Film Screening and Discussion
Join us for a screening of Ophelia, October 4th, from 1:00 – 3:30 pm in Corcoran 103
GW University Teaching Day
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…
WoW Talk on Trans Studies and Why It Matters
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…
Screening Shakespeare
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.
New Books Network Podcast
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….
Opening: Student Research Assistant
Dear English Majors, The Department of English is looking to hire a student research assistant who will work 5-10 hours per week (60 hours total per semester) with Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin on her new book on Shakespeare on film which is supported by the GW Humanities Center. This is an entry level position, and all training…
New Summer Course: Shakespeare on Film
Take a course this summer, learn to analyze films, and fulfill the Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) requirements! Professor Alexa Alice Joubin is offering ENGLISH 3440W Shakespeare on Film in the first summer session (May 17 – June 23, 2021). See the course catalogue. SPECIAL FEATURES Films by people of color, women, and disability / LGTBTQ-identified actors Relevance…