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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FREE BOOK: Get Your Copy of Kalooki Nights NOW!

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December 8, 2009
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During the month of February, renowned British novelist Howard Jacobson will be teaching, reading, and inspiring students at GW. Following Nadeem Aslam …

VP Chalupa and Research in the Humanities @ GW

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December 7, 2009
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I recently invited Vice President of Research Leo Chalupa to an English Department faculty meeting. His reaction surprised me: instead of averring …

Special One Credit “Book Club” with Howard Jacobson

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December 3, 2009
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Renowned British novelist Howard Jacobson will be our third GW-British Council Writer in Residence during February 2010. Like Suhayl Saadi and Nadeem …

Festivating accomplished

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December 3, 2009
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The English Department office has been ornamented, garnished, embellished, trimmed and bedecked for the season. Stop by, grab some chocolate, and see …

Introducing Howard Jacobson: Next Semester’s Visting Professor

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December 2, 2009
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We get excited about many things in the GW English Department. Our objects of affection range from guest lecturers to free copies …

Nao Bustamante: December 10

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December 2, 2009
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 Nao Bustamante Artist Lecturer Thursday December 10, 2009  4pm English Department Seminar Room Rome Hall 771 Nao Bustamante is an internationally known …

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