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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Tilar Mazzeo Reads Tonight, 8 p.m., on the “Secret History” of Chanel No. 5

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September 15, 2010
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Now that you’ve been filled in on the life of Jenny McKean Moore, it’s time to meet this year’s Writer-in-Residence! Come out …

Prof. Kavita Daiya Profiled in Sigur Center Newsletter

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September 10, 2010
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Check out the profile of English Prof. Kavita Daiya in the fall 2010 issue of The Asian Connection, the newsletter of the …

Howard Jacobson’s Newest Novel

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September 8, 2010
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Lots of us remember last year’s visit to GW of English novelist Howard Jacobson, our 3rd British Council U.K. Writer-in-Residence, and author …

The Story Behind the Jenny McKean Moore Fund and Writer-in-Residence

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September 6, 2010
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“A few years ago the fund endowed the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington to perpetuity. As long as there are creative writing classes …

Forecast for the Fall Semester: TemFest Celebrates The Tempest, Dec. 3

Forecast for the Fall Semester: TemFest Celebrates The Tempest, Dec. 3

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September 4, 2010
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The syllabi are in, and there’s definitely something stormy and Shakespearean coming our way! That’s right, it is not in error that …

GWU Sponsors Major DC Creative Writing Conference

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September 3, 2010
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NEWS FLASH: GW English is proud to announce that the University is a major sponsor of the 2011 AWP Conference, to be …

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