To All Current English Majors
The faculty of the department of English wish you the best of luck as you work on your final papers and examinations.
The faculty of the department of English wish you the best of luck as you work on your final papers and examinations.
The English Department is pleased to announce two job searches for this year. One is for the 2012-13 Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Writer-in-Washington, a creative writing position supported for more than 30 years by the Jenny Moore Fund. The genre of this hire changes from year to year. This year’s JMM Visiting Writer is Tim…
Lambda Literary bills itself as “the leader in LGBT [lesbian gay bisexual transgender] book reviews, author interviews, opinion and news since 1989.” The organization is also sponsor of the Lambda Literary Awards, or Lammys, the prestigious awards given every year to LGBT authors. The award honors writing in multiple genres, and recognizes works published by…
This is an image that has been circulating online since last week, when The New Yorker magazine posted it on its blog. [Click here for a link to the White House Flickr site, where you can see a huge image of the same.] As an English professor and as someone who loves to be edited…
Every English major walks through her door at one point in their academic career here at GW. She had 208 meetings with students last year. In a sense, Prof. Patricia Chu could be seen as the gatekeeper to the English department. As the Director of Undergraduate Advising she meets with students to discuss majors, minors,…
The English Department is proud to announce that two of our students, Julie Dreyfuss and Jimi Patalano, have received Luther Rice Undergraduate Fellowships for the 2012-2013 school year. The Luther Rice Collaborative Fellowship grants $5,000 to each student to conduct undergraduate research in a special area of interest under the guidance of a faculty member…
Through the generosity of a GW donor, the English Department will hold a competition this spring for the best student poem. The contest will be open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, regardless of major. We will award this substantial prize annually for the next five years. So, get writing. [image from here] Share on…