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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 […]

Celebrate Washington Writers with Profs. Sten, Mallon – Sept. 13, 4 p.m.

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September 6, 2011

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English will celebrate Chris Sten’s recent collection on September 13 A lot is going on in the English Department this month. In …

An Evening With Toni Morrison: Please RSVP

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September 1, 2011

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President Steven Knapp invites students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends to AN EVENING WITH TONI MORRISON Wednesday, September 21, 2011 …

4 Days and Counting … English Is Hiring

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August 26, 2011

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The English Department is pleased to announce two job searches for this year. One is for the 2012-13 Jenny McKean Moore Visiting …

5 Days and Counting … Faculty Kudos

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August 25, 2011

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Spotlights

After a long post-earthquake ’11 day today, I was tempted to give the Blog-a-Day idea a rest, but a backlog of faculty …

6 Days and Counting … Grad Student Erin Sheley

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August 24, 2011

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Six days until the start of the fall semester… and six more entries in the English Blog-a-Day countdown! Yesterday I focused on …

7 Days and Counting … Alum Thad Ziolkowski

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August 23, 2011

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The summer has flown by, like it always does. As I arrived at the office this morning, I saw students wearing bright …