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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 […]

From the Hatchet: Famous Authors to Read at GW

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September 8, 2009

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From the 8/27/09 Hatchet: Sedaris, Atwood will speak at Lisner Michael Chabon and Al Gore round out the venue’s fall lineup by …

Famous Authors at Folger this September and October

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September 8, 2009

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Come hear Jonathan Lethem (author of Chronic City) and Stacey D’Erasmo (author of The Sky Below) participating in a PEN/Faulkner reading on …

For Published Graduate Student GW Is Only the Next Step

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September 7, 2009

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For most graduate students, getting a PhD will be their greatest recent accomplishment. However when Tariq Al-Hayder came to study at GW …

How to Tame Your Appetite for Shakespeare

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September 4, 2009

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If you are a GW student money is probably on your mind. With the extreme tuition and high prices of DC, finding …

Cuba in the World: A Public Reading and Symposium

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September 3, 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 …

Kudos: Tara Wallace

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September 3, 2009

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Congratulations to Professor Tara Wallace, who published two essays this summer: ‘Reading the Metropole: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of Hindoo …