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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Writing Her Way to Victory: Samantha Barry’s Research on Victory Gardens

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January 16, 2010
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Gardening. What does the word mean to you? Perhaps new blossoms every spring or dirt underneath your fingernails. For most, the hobby …

Special Summer Course in York

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January 15, 2010
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Medieval Drama in Early England(ENG 172.60)The course examines early English drama through the lens of cultural adaptation and will culminate with a …

Blogging from Jewish Literature Live

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January 14, 2010
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JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE The blog has been going through a lot of changes lately, but one part (or person) of it remains …

“Children of the Sea”

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January 14, 2010
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As I write, the news coming out of Haiti is unutterably sad. This small island nation, despite its proud history, has been …

Celebrating the New Semester With New Publications

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January 13, 2010
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While the blog took a hiatus over Winter Break, that did not mean those affiliated with the GW English Department also took …

Full Moon on K Street: A New Anthology With Contributors from the Department

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January 11, 2010
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This new anthology celebrates DC and showcases several GW faculty members. Here is the official press release: Plan B Press proudly announces …

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