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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.

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 […]

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.”

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 […]

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 […]

A Mind-Opening Evening with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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October 24, 2009

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We are sure that you heard about the GW Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies with the amazing Rosemarie Garland-Thomson last …

We will be brief this time

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October 23, 2009

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RGT @ MC @ 5 2nite

Inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies: Friday October 23

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October 22, 2009

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Friday October 23 5 PM Marvin Center Continental Ballroom800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson delivers the inaugural GW English Distinguished …

From Staring

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October 21, 2009

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We know that you are going to see Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on Friday. We offer the following quotation from her brand new book …

The Woman Behind One of the Most Exciting New Theories: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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October 20, 2009

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He is one of the most famous egomaniacs in literature. He is also one of the most famous disabled characters in literature. …

From Today’s Hatchet: English Department Faculty Member Steven Knapp

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October 19, 2009

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Check out this shout-out to literature at GW, from an OpEd piece published in today’s GW Hatchet. President Knapp composed the piece …