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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“English with a Jewish Accent:” Howard Jacobson’s Visit to JLL

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February 19, 2010
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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE After a week of being trapped in his hotel room, Howard Jacobson has spoken to more English classes and …

Jewish Writing, Jewish Lives

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February 16, 2010
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GWU’s Jewish Literature Live course (taught by Prof. Faye Moskowitz) and GW’s collaboration with the British Council on its U.K. Writer-in-Residence Program …

Study with Prof. Dugan in England and Scotland this Summer

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February 14, 2010
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This just in from Prof. Holly Dugan, describing her fascinating summer 2010 English course: This summer, I’ll be teaching a course on …

Howard Jacobson’s BIG READ: Biscuits and Banter

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February 13, 2010
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According to Howard Jacobson, being a British Jew is always a struggle. Especially when you arrive in Washington on the very last …

Snowpocolypse Quips: Your Favorite Snow Quotes!

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February 12, 2010
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Well we know what the entire English Department was doing yesterday. Due to the 13 comments I got on the Facebook post …

BIG READ is ON! 1-3 p.m., Rome 771, Thursday

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February 11, 2010
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Here is a photograph of acclaimed British writer and public intellectual Howard Jacobson in warmer climes. Howard has been “in residence” since …

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