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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Ann Romines Publishes Scholarly Edition of Cather’s “Sapphira and the Slave Girl”

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June 23, 2009
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From the University of Nebraska Press website: Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense …

New blog for Joe Fisher’s English 120 class

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June 18, 2009
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This fall follow the progress of the students in Joe Fisher’s English 120 (Critical Methods) class via the innovative blog he has …

Jane Shore @ Slate

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June 16, 2009
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Check out Jane’s poem “Last Words”: Once the patient stops drinking liquids, he’s gotup to 14 days to live. If he takes …

Tour of the Library of Congress in GW Magazine

Tour of the Library of Congress in GW Magazine

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June 11, 2009
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From the latest edition: Touring a National Treasure Alumnus shows students Library of Congress’ riches A tour of the Library of Congress …

Edward P. Jones Residency in the GW Magazine

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June 11, 2009
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From the latest edition: Renowned Writers Share Their Craft Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones began his GW professorship in January with …

Jane Shore in GW Magazine

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June 11, 2009
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From the latest edition: Life, in verse By Jaime Ciavarra Poet Jane Shore is moved by ordinary moments. The GW professor of …

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