The English Department
of the George Washington University is a research-active
community of scholars and creative writers. We prize
excellence in teaching, publication, and service. We
engage with a diversity of texts within a global and
transnational context. Our creative writing and scholarship
contributes to and critiques this capacious literary
world. Our teaching fosters in students a rigorous and
informed critical reflection on literature, connecting
reading practices with writing and argumentation. As
a humanities faculty, we are especially interested in
the artistic exploration of identity, community, cultural
conflict, and history.
Jeffrey
Jerome Cohen, Chair
Gayle Wald, Deputy
Chair
Patricia Chu, Director
of Undergraduate Advising
Gil Harris, Director
of Undergraduate Studies
David McAleavey, Director
of Creative Writing
Tara Wallace, Director
of Graduate Studies
Constance Kibler, Office
Manager
Linda Terry, Department
Secretary
