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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Cuba in the World: This Thursday and Friday in the Marvin Center

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October 6, 2009
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Please join us for a two-day event on Cuba and its diaspora sponsored by the English Department with the assistance of American …

Welcome Back James Miller

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October 1, 2009
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There are certain things that seem to only occur in literature: personification, metaphor, allusion. However reoccurring themes can appear in real life …

Michael Chabon Mystery Solved!

Michael Chabon Mystery Solved!

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September 30, 2009
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Essays

I have a confession to make, I am a Michael Chabon addict. My first Chabon high came from The Amazing Adventures of …

Design a Poster, Hobnob with the Chair, the President, and Assorted Celebs

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September 29, 2009
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On October 23 2009 at 5 PM, Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson of Emory University will deliver the inaugural GW English Distinguished Lecture in …

“Nothing human is alien to the pen of a novelist or to a reader.”-Julia Alvarez

“Nothing human is alien to the pen of a novelist or to a reader.”-Julia Alvarez

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September 27, 2009
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Events

It was a cold and wet, absolutely miserable day. This could be the start to a novel, but definitely not a good …

Don’t Miss the National Book Festival Tomorrow!

Don’t Miss the National Book Festival Tomorrow!

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September 25, 2009
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Events

There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic …

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