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…
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.
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…
Two Shakespeare Courses in Spring on Film and Race Come sharpen your skills of analyzing canonical stories the society tells about itself. The world is made up of stories. Stories full of sound and fury. Great stories are often strangers at home. One of the greatest storytellers is Shakespeare. His plays…
Screening Shakespeare (ENGL 6260) Monday, 4:10-6:00 pm Professor Alexa Alice Joubin Fall 2017 Semester Shakespeare has been screened–projected on the silver screen and filtered by various ideologies—since 1899. What critical resources might we bring to the task of interpreting performances on film, television, in digital video, and as filmed theatre pieces? This seminar examines the adaptation…
Shakespeare on Film (ENGL3445) Mon/Wed 12:45-2:00 pm taught by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, offered this fall semester of 2017 Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted for the cinema since 1899 in multiple film genres, including silent film, film noire, Western, theatrical film, and Hollywood films. This course examines Shakespeare’s lesser-known romance play, histories, tragedies, and comedies…
