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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Writer Ariel Sabar Speaks Tuesday, April 13

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April 13, 2010
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The English Department welcomes Ariel Sabar, author of the prize-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, for a …

Sunday “Treme” Event Cancelled

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April 9, 2010
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Busboys and Poets has had to cancel this Sunday’s “Treme” event, featuring a screening of HBO’s new TV series based in New …

English Department Faculty, Students Garner Honors and Awards

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April 7, 2010
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These days, I can barely keep up with the accolades being garnered by English Department faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Yesterday, we …

Sarah Kuczynski, your 2010-11 blogger, at Busboys & Poets this weekend

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April 6, 2010
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The English Department is thrilled to announce that Sarah Kuczynski, GWU class of 2012, will be blogging for us beginning in fall …

T-SHIRT DAY: APRIL 28

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April 5, 2010
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Due to popular demand, we are bringing T-SHIRT DAY back! Let it be known that Wednesday April 28, 2010, aka the last …

What’s the Old Blogger Up to?

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March 31, 2010
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I believe I was born to blog (is this a good thing or should I have higher life aspirations?), but as much …

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