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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The English department is thrilled to announce that Prof. James Millers’s 2009 book Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial (Princeton …

A Sweet Welcome Back

As I write this, most courses for the Fall 2010 semester will already have met once. It’s hard to believe that summer …

The English Department relies on the generous gifts of its friends, especially its alumni friends, to maintain the excellence of the programs …

Dog Days Update

Definitions of “dog days” differ from source to source. In common parlance, “dog days” refers to the sultry days of late summer, …

English majors are everywhere. They work in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. They work in business, law, public relations, government, development, …

Today I’m reposting information about Prof. Jeffrey Cohen’s ENGL 42W: Myths of Britain course for fall 2010. There are still spots left …