Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has teamed up with scientist Linda T. Elkins-Tanton to co-author Earth: Object Lessons (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), an examination of the planet from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist. They've written: "Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it first appears...how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?"

Robert McRuer's Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (New York University Press, 2018) asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity—or "crip times." With examples from South Africa, Brazil, Chile and Thatcher's U.K., Professor McRuer analyzes how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature and performance—provide important and generative sites, both for contesting austerity politics and for imagining alternatives. Read More
 
Lisa Page and Brando Skyhorse have coedited We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories of Passing in America (Beacon Press, 2017). Page, GW's director of creative writing, recounts how her white mother concealed her former marriage to a black man and their biracial children. Skyhorse, a Mexican American and former Jenny McKean Moore writer, recounts how his mother passed him as an American Indian before he learned who he really is. Read More

Robert Becker, BA ’63, says “English lit was the best decision I made back then.” After several professions, including speech writer for a cabinet level official, Robert is now an Episcopal priest with a doctorate in Christian Spirituality.

Michael Bennett, BA ’02, is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Bennett recently published his tenth book (his fifth monograph), Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play (Routledge 2017).

Zachary Bennett, MA ’12, will complete his JD at GW Law School in 2018. He had the greatest honor of his life as the teaching assistant for Dystopian Visions, a course taught this fall in the CCAS by his political hero, Senator Rand Paul.

Bailey Blumenstock, BA ’17, is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at American University.

Mary “Beth” Buhot Runquist, BA ’97, is working as the assistant director of the Writing Center at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Penn.

The Department of English would like to gratefully acknowledge the following generous donors who made a gift to the department from July 1, 2016 – December 31, 2017. 

Yolande Lanni Allen, BA ’70
Dr. Daniel M. Atwood, MA ’67
Rachel A. Azarow, BA ’12
Margaret S. Benda ~
Linda Norberg Blair, PhD, PhD ’95
Harris S. Blum, BA ’08
Bailey E. Blumenstock, BA ’17
Eric A. Brichto, BA ’09
Olga L. Brichto, BA ’07
Vinod Busjeet *
Mackenzie T. Dart, BA ’17
Sander Davidson *
Kelly A. Domnick #
Sean C. Domnick #
Richard M. Flynn, PhD, PhD ’87
Olivia C. Garcia, BA ’17
Shoshana Moskowitz Grove, BA ’82
Oona M. Intemann ~
Marjorie H. Kalter, BA ’67
Catherine E. Kushan, BA ’15, MA ’17
Karissa S. Lake, CA ’11, MA ’12
Elizabeth G. Lanfranchi, BA ’16
Dr. Donald F. Larsson, BA ’71
Morgan C. Manghera ~
Melissa A. Matusky, BA ’14, MA ’15
Andrew J. Morris, BA ’08
Timothy K. Nixon, PhD, PhD ’05
Dr. Gail Orgelfinger, BA ’72
Beverly Packer *
Dr. Randall K. Packer +
Dr. Jeanne Marie Rose, BA ’95
Mary K. Sherwood, BA ’10
Carly W. Shin ~
Robert H. Smith Family Foundation
David Bruce Smith Family Foundation
Harvey D. Snyder, EdD, EdD ’78 
Kathleen K. Snyder, BA ’68
Dr. Christopher W. Sten +
Kelley C. Stokes, BA ’10, MA Ed ’12 
John George Sussek, III, BA ’79
Ayanna T. Thompson +
Helen Margaret Tulloch, BA ’87
William Gray Turner, MPS ’11 
Jennifer Lyman Wagner, BA ’90

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Gifts to the Department of English allow us to provide support for faculty and student research and travel, graduate student fellowships, and academic enrichment activities including guest speakers, visiting faculty, and symposia. Each gift, no matter how large or small, makes a positive impact on our educational mission and furthers our standing as one of the nation's preeminent liberal arts colleges at one of the world's preeminent universities. 
You can make your gift to the department in a number of ways:

• Securely online. 

• By mailing your check, made out to The George Washington University. Please include “English Department” in the memo line, to: 

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• By phone by calling the GW Division of Development and Alumni Relations at 1-800-789-2611.