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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Toni Morrison in a 2008 photograph. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison will be visiting GW on Wednesday, September 21, where she will …

Dog Days Reading

English major Jessica Chace recently wrote to ask what folks in the English department were reading this summer, so we did a …

Naglaa Mahmoud in a very DC shot. Can you spy the cherry blossoms in the distance? Occasionally the English department has the …

Literary Capital, Prof. Chris Sten‘s collection of “Washington writing” appears from University of Georgia Press later this week. Currently, the book is …

In May we honored our graduating seniors and MA and PhD students. But we’re also please to have two of our faculty …

The English Department is thrilled to announce that Alexa Alice Joubin will be joining the English department this fall as Associate Professor. …