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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 […]

Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World

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March 5, 2021

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Essays

In Professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s recent op-ed, she championed the value of the humanities in a globalized world. The world needs good …

EGSA Symposium: Decay and Regeneration This Friday, March 5th!

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March 1, 2021

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Events

Please join us virtually this Friday, March 5th, 2021 for the annual symposium hosted by the English Graduate Student Association! Our theme …

Jenny McKean Moore Reading – Creative nonfiction writer Honor Moore

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February 26, 2021

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Events

Our next Jenny McKean Moore reading is Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm. It will be a special evening, featuring the …

Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability is Back!

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February 26, 2021

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Events

We are happy to announce that the Composing Disability conference that was postponed last year will be returning virtually on Friday, April …

Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard Discuss United in Anger

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February 24, 2021

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Events

Join students in Contemporary LGBT Writing on March 10 at 7 PM for a roundtable discussion with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, …

Visiting Speaker: T. Kira Madden

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February 22, 2021

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Essays

On February 16th, author T Kira Madden hosted a conversation and Q&A with Professor Annie Liontas’ Creative Nonfiction writing workshop class. Her debut memoir Long …