Shakespeare in American Sign Language
Check out this podcast on Shakespeare in American Sign Language. Intriguing relationship between medium and message here! h/t Jill Bradbury
https://soundcloud.com/folgers…/shakespeare-in-sign-language
Check out this podcast on Shakespeare in American Sign Language. Intriguing relationship between medium and message here! h/t Jill Bradbury
https://soundcloud.com/folgers…/shakespeare-in-sign-language
On December 2, GW student groups staged a four-hour “die-in” event to protest recent events in Ferguson, MO, and to make calls for social justice on campus, in the community, and beyond. This event was aggressively promoted on social media (Facebook page and on twitter using the hashtag #GWFerguson) and it was widely documented on tumblr and other platforms. As…
Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”
What would happen if over 150 students, poets, artists, and academics joined forces to creatively rewrite all of Shakespeare’s sonnets? The result would be Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (2014), a collaborative, mixed-genre collection edited by GW English PhD student D. Gilson. This multimedia publication was a collaborative project that had its origins in Gilson’s “call for contributors”…
The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. joined PIT-UN in 2020, bringing a wealth of public interest technology experience and expertise to the network. The school has a long history of dedication to the public interest, and in recent years has made public interest technology a particular focus for students and faculty in coding, data…
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The New Books Network interview about the book is…
[Cross-posted from the GW English blog] George Washington University’s biennial Composing Disability Conference returns in Spring 2016 with the theme of “Crip Ecologies.” The event will be held April 7-8, 2016; featured speakers include Sunaura Taylor and Riva Lehrer, with others to be announced soon. Crip Ecologies is sponsored by the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion,…