Why and How to Become an English Major: March 3!
This announcement went out via the Thurston Hall listerv, but anyone who is interested in declaring an English major or minor at GW is very welcome to attend!
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Writing in the Disciplines
This announcement went out via the Thurston Hall listerv, but anyone who is interested in declaring an English major or minor at GW is very welcome to attend!
“Disabled People and the Holocaust” class on site in Germany Professor David Mitchell’s course Disabled People and the Holocaust is featured in the latest CCAS E-Magazine. You can read the entire story here. Here are some excerpts: ‘Mitchell, who has a disability, first envisioned the course with women’s studies professor and research partner Sharon Snyder in…
Still from Chuecatown (2007), dir. Juan Flahn For the past ten years, GW English has offered a unique interdisciplinary in lgbtq studies and film studies; on Saturday, December 8, students from the class will come together to present their work-in-progress. Students from Professor Robert McRuer’s “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ cultures” (English 3980) will…
English 3980W Fall 2018 GW Students: English 3980W returns this fall and is now open for registration! This course meets at GW all semester as a regular class but includes a short-term study abroad element: one week in Prague, Czech Republic, where we will meet with Czech students taking the same class in Prague and…
Chuck Frank, GW English BA ’74 GW English Alum Charles “Chuck” Frank (BA, 1974) was recently featured on the GW Impact blog for his important philanthrophic work, particularly his establishment of The Charles and Deborah Frank Fund for Veterans Studying Sustainability. You can read the entire piece here. This excerpt provides a summary of Frank’s…
We are pleased to share that English Ph.D. candidate Farisa Khalid was awarded the competitive CCAS Dean’s Graduate Instructorship Award 2020, an award given by GWU’s College of Arts & Sciences to “exceptional Ph.D. candidates the unique experience of designing and teaching their own undergraduate courses while obtaining financial support for their dissertation research.” Up…
GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him directly (jjcohen@gwu.edu) to be signed into the class (all it takes is the RTF form). The course meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. and is a small, seminar-type class that is…