Welcome Back!
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
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
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 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
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 […]

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Announcing the EGSA Blog

The 2011-2012 English Graduate Student Association announces the arrival of the GW EGSA Blog! Here is a report by graduate student Tawnya …

Looking into Tim Johnston’s smoky gray eyes, one finds no presumption lurking there. His answers are direct, and he pauses for new …

English Dept. Secretary Linda Terry, Assistant Prof. Holly Dugan, and Office Manager Constance Kibler. It’s official! Prof. Holly Dugan’s The Ephemeral History …

By special arrangement with the folks organizing Toni Morrison’s upcoming campus visit (thank you, Prof. Evelyn Schreiber!), the English department has obtained …

By GW Student Reporter There was a tempest of sorts happening outside as I rushed over puddles and clumps of wet leaves …

Joe when he is not in Foggy Bottom. Joe Mancinik, the new English Department communications intern, has a philosophy on life, which …