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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 […]

Edward P Jones Library Reception

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April 22, 2009

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In connection with the presence of novelist Edward P. Jones on campus this semester, English Department graduate students Constance Woodard and Elizabeth …

Big Reading WEDNESDAY

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April 21, 2009

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You read about it at Ducks and What They Do. Now come attend the small, just for you last reading by Edward …

A Personal Invitation from the Department Chair to Wednesday’s Event

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April 20, 2009

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You may have heard that we have decided to celebrate the successful residency of Edward P. Jones in GW’s English Department with …

Policy on Transfer of Credits for English Majors

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April 20, 2009

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The following policy about transfer of course credit for English majors goes into effect in the fall semester of 2009. The thinking …

Your Homework Assignment for This Weekend

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April 17, 2009

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1. Go to this film, and thereby support GW English alumnus Jason Filardi. 2. Enjoy with some popcorn. 3. Tell your professor …

Josie Price Wins Student Poetry Contest

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April 16, 2009

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The Department of English is pleased to announce that Josie Price has won the first annual Student Poetry Contest for her piece …