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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 […]

Art Spiegelman TONIGHT

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April 2, 2009

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Do not miss Art Spiegelman tonight at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium (SMPA). Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers …

English Department Chair Resigns to Take Up Post at Knowlidge U

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April 1, 2009

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The Chair of the English Department resigned today to accept a job as provost of a newly formed online degree granting entity …

A.B. Yehoshua @ Sixth & I

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March 31, 2009

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On Sunday, April 19 at 7:00 pm, Sixth & I Historic Synagogue is hosting A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s most acclaimed authors …

T-Shirt Thursday Postponed Til Tuesday (4/28)

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March 31, 2009

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So were going to have our First Annual T-Shirt Thursday Extravaganza this Thursday. As it turns out, though, we did not give …

Another Poetry Prize

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March 31, 2009

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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE In early April we’ll be awarding the prestigious Academy of American Poets College Prize to a G.W. …

Poet Ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop

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March 31, 2009

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The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, …