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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Sign Up for 42W Next Fall: Myths of Britain

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April 28, 2010
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Professor Jeffrey Cohen writes to tell you about his fantastic Myths of Britain course next fall. There are still a few spots …

Poetry Out Loud Finals Tonight at Lisner Auditorium

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April 27, 2010
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Our very own Jane Shore will be judging, along with writer/radio personality Garrison Keiller and actor Alfre Woodard. Host is John Leguizamo. …

G-PAC, Language Learning, and English

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April 26, 2010
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Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and …

T Shirt Day is Wednesday

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April 26, 2010
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T Shirt Day is back this Wednesday, April 28, and you won’t want to be the only one in Critical Methods or …

ELEW in Concert: Tuesday, 4/27 at 11 a.m.

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April 23, 2010
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This just in from Prof. Tina Daub, who teaches ENGL 81, Introduction to Creative Writing. On Tuesday, April 27 at 11 a.m. …

The Final Reading of the Year: Ramola D & Gina Welch

The Final Reading of the Year: Ramola D & Gina Welch

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April 22, 2010
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The room was packed. Students watched as the head of the Creative Writing Department, Faye Moskowitz, ran around trying to find enough …

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