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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From Prison to Stage

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June 9, 2009
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The following was sent by faculty member Pati Griiffith, who is helping to edit the plays. Highlights of Kennedy Center “From Prison …

Michael Fauver Has a Blog

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June 8, 2009
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Former Featured Alumnus Michael Fauver has a new blog, named after his book in progress Why I Won’t Remember Who You Were. …

Part Five: Featured Alumnus Mark Olshaker

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June 5, 2009
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To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a …

Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72) Part Four

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June 5, 2009
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To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a …

Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72) Part Three

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June 4, 2009
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To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a …

Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72) Part Two

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June 3, 2009
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To mark the beginning of June and as a nod to our 2009 graduates, this week GW English News will feature a …

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