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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Friday “Race?” Symposium sponsored by GW MEMSI

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March 1, 2010
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This Friday from 2-4 p.m. in the Marvin Center Amphitheatre, GW MEMSI will be sponsoring a spring symposium titled “Race?” Presenters include …

Apply for the Folger-GW Undergraduate Seminar “Books and Early Modern Culture”

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March 1, 2010
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Would you like to learn more about the early modern period and to do research in one of the world’s best collections …

Get to Know Your TA: Jessica Frazier

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February 28, 2010
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Do you ever wonder who is sitting in the front of the room taking attendance? Who is the TA leading your discussion …

Howard Jacobson at the DCJCC on Memory and Antisemitism

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February 26, 2010
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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE What is a joke? More specifically, what is a Jewish joke? I have a feeling the answer would vary …

The Short Story & the Truth Behind Grad School: Talking to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra

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February 24, 2010
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You know that graduate school is getting to you when teaching a summer course is considered a “break.” While working on her …

Jane Austen Seminar at the Smithsonian

Jane Austen Seminar at the Smithsonian

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February 21, 2010
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Zabrina McIntyre of the Smithsonian Associates would like everyone to know about a special program featuring professor Tara Wallace: Jane Austen: The …

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