Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast with Professor Ayanna Thompson

GW English ProfessorAyanna ThompsonProfessor Ayanna Thompson has been featured on the Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, available on the Folger Shakespeare Library's website."Our own voices with our own tongues": Shakespeare in Black and White is available for listening here.The library's website describes the podcast:'In one of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues" revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a ...

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Teddy Wayne Reads This Thursday in JMM Reading Series

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Next Open Space Student Reading: This Monday!

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Leigha McReynolds Wins Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award

GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynoldsRecipient of the 2015 Phillip J. AmsterdamGraduate Teaching AwardGW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds has won this year's prestigious Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award.  The Amsterdam Teaching Award "was created to honor individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to GW teaching and to recognize the important contribution our graduate students make to the educational process.  President Stephen J. Trachtenberg and ...

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Meet the Sundial Review, A Literary Magazine Started by GW Students

Last fall GW students Emily Holland (English major, ’16) and Morgan Baskin (International affairs, ’17) decided that they hadn’t found enough creative outlet in working for the Hatchet and decided to create a literary magazine. Influenced by their love of publications like The Paris Review but aware of their inaccessibility, their aim was to create a publication that was dignified and in keeping with their own aesthetic standards while remaining accessible and unbiased. After a successful Kickstarter ...

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GW English Alums on the Move: Stephanie Gardner

Stephanie Gardner (BA '08)STEPHANIE GARDNER: 'Soak up the world.  Really look, really listen.'Since Stephanie Gardner graduated from our department, she's been a busy and prolific filmmaker based in New York City. (You can check out her website here.)   We talked to her about film, literature, and her GW English department experience.You're doing all sorts of exciting things with film, and we'll get to that in a moment.  First, though:  Talk about your time in ...

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English Honors Program Information Session

GW English Majors:Oxford English Dictionary:Exalted rank or position;dignity, distinctionWe are now accepting applications for the English Department Honors Program for 2015-16.  The program is designed to provide exceptional students with an opportunity to participate in a two-semester seminar culminating in an Honors thesis written in consultation with faculty advisors. English majors are eligible to apply in the spring of their junior year and must have a GPA of at least 3.0 overall ...

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#GWDH15: the Disrupting DH Symposium at GW

Disrupting DH Roundtable. Photo credit: M.W. Bychowski.The GW Digital Humanities Symposium: DISRUPTING DH took place in the Jack Morton Auditorium on Friday, January 30, 2015 9am – 4pm. The event was organized by Jonathan Hsy, Founding Co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute (the other DHI Founding Co-Director Alexa Huang is currently away on a Fulbright in the UK) as well as by the DHI Graduate Assistants M.W. Bychowski and Shyama Rajendran.DISRUPTING DH brought together ...

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Shakespeare in the Mediterranean Information Session

Join us for an information session on this exciting GW English Summer Study Abroad course!  Read more about the course here.Summer Study Abroad: Shakespeare in the Mediterranean, May 18-June 4.Professors: Suzanne Miller, History; Katherine Keller, EnglishApplication Deadline: March 2, 2015Information Session: Tuesday, February 17, 5:30-6:30pm, Marvin Center ...

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