The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jordan Coggins will be our Communications Liaison for the 2014-2015 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jordan will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Jordan is pursuing a B.A. in English…
Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel about his new book and we had an engaging and edifying conversation about the process of creating this now-tangible text: …
This Spring, Daniel DeWisepelare has been teaching Critical Methods (ENGL 2800W), and his students for this course will be presenting their work on critical theory and literature at “A Critical Methods Symposium and Party” today at 2pm in Rome Hall 771. The Symposium is in its second year and testifies to the thriving culture in…
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…
Recently Prof. Robert McRuer was interviewed by “Pushing Limits,” a radio show by and for people with disabilities produced by KPFA in Berkeley, California. The show airs twice monthly in the Bay Area and is available as an online broadcast. The segment in question, which is available for listening here, focused on influential American…
“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…
