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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-25 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as new department chair.

Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo

“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for […]

English Department Receives a Mellon Grant

The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”

Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu

Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes […]

PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk

What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I […]

Public Lecture on AI by N. Katherine Hayles

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September 9, 2024

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Events

Featuring Professor N. Katherine Hayles, this public lecture will offer a set of criteria by which a system may be judged to be cognitive or not, testing it against minimally cognitive biological lifeforms such as unicellular organisms and plants.

Professor’s Books Named as NYT’s Best Books

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September 6, 2024

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Spotlights

Award-winning author Edward P. Jones has written stories that depicted life in the Antebellum South and the lives of working-class African Americans …

Welcome Back from the Department Chair

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September 3, 2024

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Dear English Department students, Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-2025 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and …

Alexa Alice Joubin advocating for humanistic, interdisciplinary education at the QS Summit

English Professor at QS Summit on AI

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July 13, 2024

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According to Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, meta-cognition and critical questioning skills are among the most important competency in the era of artificial intelligence. Prof. Joubin spoke at the QS Summit.

2023 Wang Endowment Lecture

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October 26, 2023

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Events

Attendant with Pearls: Abolition, Portraiture, Agency, and the Properties of Benevolence is the topic of this year’s Wang Endowment Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Patricia Matthew. All are welcome!

Student Project on Lost in the City

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October 6, 2023

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Courses

Based on Edward P. Jones' stories, creative writing students curated a virtual Instagram tour of Washington DC as the city was in the 1950s and the city today.