Valentine’s Day Alumni News

Professor McRuer in the late night sun of Copenhagen, Denmark August does have a way of sneaking up on us!  It’s hard to believe that classes at The George Washington University start three weeks from today, on Monday, August 31.  Our faculty, as usual, has been hard at work over the summer.  We’ve been in…

D. Gilson (center) with graduate students Maia Gil’Adi (left) and Rachel Obenschain (right) On Friday, PhD student D. Gilson won the Larry Neal Writers’ Competition in the poetry category. Each year, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents these awards to commemorate the artistic legacy and vision of cultural understanding of Larry Neal –…

GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, with a specialty in fiction.  Professor Yun comes to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her MFA and where…

The debates about Massive Open Online Courses continues, and Professor Margaret Soltan continues to be sought after for her thoughts on the subject.  She was recently featured talking about her Poetry MOOC in Poets and Writers Magazine:  Soltan, who teaches a course through Udemy titled Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It, says…

Recent English department grad Sarah Kuczynski, who has just started a PhD program in English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been selected for a Mellon Fellowship there.  It provides a service-free first year and a service-free fifth year for dissertation writing with a stipend of $15, 200. In years two through four, …

Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Maryam Gilanshah is a Creative Writing/English graduate, specializing in fiction. Her work has been published in Paper Shell Review, Catfish Creek, & Zeniada. This semester, she produced “Fine Girl,” a collection of short stories centered around isolation, identity, & daughterhood for her thesis. Following her graduation, Maryam will study fiction at…