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.
“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 […]
The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”
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 […]
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 […]
English graduate students at GW are a busy and productive group. In addition to the usual–taking classes, studying for and taking graduate …
Recently, the department emailed out copies of its first electronic newsletter to more than 1,300 English department alumni, as well as current …
If you haven’t already marked your calendars, get our your smart phones, pens, and day planners, and reserve Friday, October 22 for …
This is one of those weekends when it’s good to be a book lover in Washington, DC. The 10th annual National Book …
In the year 1988, poet and editor David Lehman started The Best American Poetry series. The guest editor of the anthology examines …
The English Department was sad to learn of the recent passing on August 25 of a beloved colleague, Edward R. Weismiller. We …