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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“Prof Plotz is AMAZING”

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April 20, 2010
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This photo was photoshopped for this blog, but only because I took it with my cell phone last year. (It’s still a …

Grad Students Debut New Journal

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April 20, 2010
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A group of English graduate students has just announced the debut of a new online open-access journal Prefix. The journal has a …

Get to Know Your TA: Lowell Duckert

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April 19, 2010
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We hope you have enjoyed the Get to Know Your TA feature. This will be our third and final post in the …

Patricia Chu’s Cross-Cultural Journey

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April 15, 2010
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Every English major walks through her door at one point in their academic career here at GW. She had 208 meetings with …

Ariel Sabar: The Ever Unfolding Story of Jewish Survival

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April 14, 2010
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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE A few years ago Ariel Sabar quit his day job as an award winning journalist in order to work …

We are Green(er)

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April 13, 2010
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These days, you may see a lot of English professors walking around with coffee mugs and reusable water bottles. At our last …

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