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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Get to Know Your TA: Nedda Mehdizadeh

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March 22, 2010
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Get to Know Your TA: Nedda Mehdizadeh We have all seen the television commercials for the Sylvan Learning Centers, the national tutoring …

Your Professors’ Favorite Beach Reads

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March 12, 2010
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Spring break has officially started (although some of you left yesterday, I’m jealous). Just because you plan on taking a week off …

An Atheist in the Land of Belivers: Gina Welch’s Foray into Evangelical Chirstendom

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March 9, 2010
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You may have seen Gina Welch running around the English Department offices in a pair of green heels. Or perhaps you caught …

Traveling Back in Time & Judaism: Gabriel Brownstein’s Visit to JLL

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March 5, 2010
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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE There is a running joke in Jewish Literature Live that despite the course title no author will admit they …

Writing From India to America: Ramola D

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March 3, 2010
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When you talk to most professors in the English department they profess that reading became an obsessive hobby from an early age. …

Jane Shore’s Poetry Workshop in Italy this Summer!

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March 2, 2010
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What are you doing this summer? Avoid the boring internship or ice cream parlor job and travel to Italy for a poetry …

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