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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 […]

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 […]

Spring Break has Sprung

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We’re not quite there yet. But it is Spring Break. Here’s what students and professors are doing over the break: Prof. Tara …

Alumna Lilly Rivlin Screens Film about Writer Grace Paley

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Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected …

Jenny 2 Readings by Three Talented CW Faculty

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Last Wednesday, I had the fortune of seeing GW English professors Michelle Brafman, Mary Tabor and Lisa Page, in a reading that …

Toni Morrison’s 80th Birthday Celebration at the LOC

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Prof. Schreiber toasts Toni Morrison (seated, at left) at her birthday celebration at the Library of Congress last week. This guest post …

“This Conversation Is Not Over”: The Theft of Flat Langston

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This post is guest blogged by Prof. Gregory Pardlo. It seems we have not quite put AWP behind us. One of the …

Bob Ganz’s “Last Lecture”

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Prof. Robert N. Ganz delivered a “Last Lecture” to more than 100 friends and colleagues. Prof. Robert Ganz’s unique legacy of teaching …