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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 […]

Tara Wallace Publishes “Imperial Characters”

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Congratulations to Prof. Tara Wallace, whose book Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature is now out in print from Bucknell …

Our graduating English majors do amazing things

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[Last update May 14, 2010] They….. …. stay at GW for the English Department’s BA/MA program (Laura Feigin) or to attend GW …

Anya Firestone: “A Self-made Mannequin of Aesthetic Hedonism”

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You may have seen senior Anya Firestone on the Dangerous Liaisons posters throughout campus a month ago. Or perhaps you have seen …

Graduation Celebration: An Invitation

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Members of the Class of 2010 and their guests are cordially invited to celebrate with the English Department on May 15 from …

Thomas Mallon in GW Today!

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Thomas Mallon is in GW Today. Read the article below! Wordsmith of Washington Critically acclaimed novelist will lead GW’s creative writing program. …

Why English is the Best Major

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You know you are an English major/professor when you are dorky enough to wear this t-shirt. Thanks to (from left to right) …