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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 […]

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 […]

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 …

Featured Alumnus: Mark Olshaker (’72)

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June 1, 2009

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With the class of 2009 now safely out of GW’s hallowed (and under construction) halls, now is the perfect time to provide …

The English Department Congratulates Rajiv Menon

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May 28, 2009

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Along with eight other students, Rajiv Menon was awarded a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship. From the press release: Rajiv Menon, a …

Summer Reading 2

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May 27, 2009

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Former GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi has a new book, Joseph’s Box. Check out the website and add the book …

Summer Reading 1

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May 27, 2009

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We will soon announce a Big Lecture here at GW by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a founder of the discipline of disability studies. Her …