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As a humanities discipline in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the GW English Department is especially interested in the artistic exploration of identity, community, cultural conflict and history. Our more than 30 faculty members challenge students to consider the historical, personal and political impacts that literature makes upon people and culture. Students and faculty frequently publish articles and books, present at conferences and win awards and other recognition for their work. And our alumni have gone on to pursue varied and successful careers in the arts, business, education, entrepreneurship, journalism, law, publishing, public service and more.

It’s fall finally 🍁, and the final Jenny McKean Moore reading of the fall semester on 11/5 will feature novelist, Lacey ...
10/19/2026

It’s fall finally 🍁, and the final Jenny McKean Moore reading of the fall semester on 11/5 will feature novelist, Lacey Dunham Lacey N Dunham. Lacey will read from her debut novel, THE BELLES, and discuss her writing process. Please join us if you’re on campus!

Congratulations to Sylvia Jones, professorial lecturer of English! Today is publication day for Dope Callisthenics, publ...
10/13/2026

Congratulations to Sylvia Jones, professorial lecturer of English! Today is publication day for Dope Callisthenics, published by Relegation Books + Records. Professor Jones’s second collection of poetry examines “the pressure exerted on working-class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market’s endless demand for performance.”

If you see Professor Jones on campus this week, please congratulate her! 👍🙌👏

Wondering what you can do with a major in Creative Writing and English? Gabrielle Kirk gabrielle🌈 graduated from GW in 2...
10/08/2026

Wondering what you can do with a major in Creative Writing and English? Gabrielle Kirk gabrielle🌈 graduated from GW in 2024 and went on to receive her MA in Publishing and Writing at Emerson. She recently moved to New York to start her new position as an Associate Editor at Simon & Schuster, where she’ll help manage and edit the commercial fiction list at Emily Bestler Books.
Congratulations, Gabrielle! We’re so proud of you and cheering you on over here! 🎉👏🙌🥳

If you’re a Creative Writing alum, we’d love to hear what you’ve been up to since graduation. Please keep the updates coming by sending them to [email protected].

Also: don’t forget the new BA/MPS combined degree program at GW - a bachelors in creative writing and a masters in publishing in 5 years!

10/08/2026

World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red

Earlier this week, GW creative writing students attended the award ceremony for the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award for Excel...
10/06/2026

Earlier this week, GW creative writing students attended the award ceremony for the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and met this year’s winner, Elizabeth McCracken.

Pictured here, L to R - Andrea Mendoza-Melchor, Brianna Whyte, Elizabeth McCracken, Shayla Williams, and Kiavash Vakili. 👉

The program featured a reading by McCracken, followed by a conversation with former Malamud winner, Yiyun Li.

Congratulations to Professor Robert McRuer, whose latest book — Disability, Revolution — was published last month by Uni...
10/02/2026

Congratulations to Professor Robert McRuer, whose latest book — Disability, Revolution — was published last month by University of California Press. The departments of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies WGSS at GW hosted a book launch where Professor McRuer presented his work to a full house.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Jenny McKean Moore reading last night! So wonderful to hear Professor Chet’la...
10/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Jenny McKean Moore reading last night! So wonderful to hear Professor Chet’la Sebree in conversation about her new book of essays, Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home, with Professor Lisa Page.

Afterwards, the Creative Writing Program hosted a mixer where students and faculty consumed many 🍔 🍔 🍔.

Q***r theorist Lisa Duggan helps kick off our fall semester with a talk on her new project on Companion AI
09/25/2026

Q***r theorist Lisa Duggan helps kick off our fall semester with a talk on her new project on Companion AI

Please join us on Thursday, October 1, 6 PM in Gelman 702 when poet, essayist, and GW English professor Chet'la Sebree r...
09/25/2026

Please join us on Thursday, October 1, 6 PM in Gelman 702 when poet, essayist, and GW English professor Chet'la Sebree reads from her recent essay collection, Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home. She’ll be in conversation with Professor Lisa Page.

This reading will be followed by a mixer for Creative Writing majors, minors, prospective majors and minors, and faculty at Circa.

Soumi Ganguly, a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the English department, was awarded the Graduate Research Associate positi...
09/24/2026

Soumi Ganguly, a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the English department, was awarded the Graduate Research Associate position at the Sigur Center for 2025-6, which gave her diss. research funding. She went to the archives in the British Library and the National Archives this summer, and looked at documents on imperial tensions along the East Pakistan-Burma border in 1947-8.

In August, the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, her alma mater, invited her to deliver a lecture at their monthly colloquium on August 5, titled “Imperial Intimacies: Forced Displacement from Sri Lanka and Myanmar,” on her archival research in the UK to investigate colonial policies that intensified ethnic tensions in postcolonial statemaking and led to the consequent forced displacements of Tamils and Rohingyas. Here is the Sociology department’s LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/department-of-sociology-st-xavier-s-college-autonomous-kolkata_is-migration-simply-the-crossing-of-boundaries-activity-7492948709966544897-fWqM?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADalqFoBBFeS672Qv3PZ9UUhfZLELzVp-sI

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