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.

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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 […]

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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.”

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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 […]

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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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TemFest Part II on December 3

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November 22, 2010
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Painting by Joseph Citro The GW Africana Studies Program, Latino Studies Program, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute are proud to …

A Fresh Take on American Literature for Spring 2011

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November 19, 2010
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ENGL 1320W, Literature of the Americas, being taught this spring by Department Chair Prof. Gayle Wald, offers students a multicultural, transnational introduction …

Spring 2011 Jewish Literature Live Line-up Announced

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November 18, 2010
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Prof. Faye Moskowitz has just announced the roster of acclaimed Jewish writers set to visit GW as part of next spring’s Jewish …

Reading Repair: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet, Photographer, and Large-Scale Renovator

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November 17, 2010
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Drawing on an argument made by late New York poet Audre Lorde that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” …

Spring 2011 English Department Course Descriptions

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November 16, 2010
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We’ve had trouble getting these course descriptions posted to our website, so we’re putting them here. English Course Descriptions – Spring 2011 …

Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to Read Thursday

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November 10, 2010
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Acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will be on campus Thursday reading from his newest poetry collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. Skin, …

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