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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Welcome from the New Chair

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January 4, 2010
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No, that’s not me. That’s the guy who played the Maytag Repairman on TV. More about that later. It’s a pleasure to …

EDWARD P. JONES TO JOIN GW FACULTY

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December 22, 2009
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The English Department of the George Washington University is happy to announce that Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones will join …

A Letter from the Departing Chair of the English Department

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December 15, 2009
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Dear friends,It has been my pleasure to serve as chair of the GW English Department for the past three and a half …

Katy DiSavino On Theater, Writing, and Knickers

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December 10, 2009
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For alumna, Katy DiSavino, being a playwright was not really a choice, it was in her blood. As the daughter of parents …

Poetry Workshop for DC Residents This Spring

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December 9, 2009
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Some Current Research in the English Department

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December 9, 2009
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As you plan your end of the year giving, we hope that you will keep the GW English Department in mind. Here …

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