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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Michael Chabon Reading in the Hatchet

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March 26, 2009
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Media Credit: Aude White/Hatchet photographerFrom today’s edition: English department hosts renowned Jewish authorMichael Chabon delivers reading in Jack Morton by Joe MancinikHatchet …

Special One Credit Course for Fall 2009: “Narrating the Nation: From Gandhi to Glocalisation”

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March 26, 2009
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Each year under the rubric of “Studies in Contemporary Literature,” the English Department brings you the chance to study for a time …

Michael Chabon Reading: Recap

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March 25, 2009
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Michael Chabon is many things. A 45 year old male. A Pulitzer Prize-winner. A Jewish-American author. A true geek. The author, best …

Art Spiegelman: April 2 @ Jack Morton Auditorium, 7 PM

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March 25, 2009
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Michael Chabon and Me

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March 25, 2009
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by J J Cohen Among my favorite perks as chair of the GW English Department is the chance to spend time with …

Best Student Poem Contest: Deadline is this Friday!

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March 24, 2009
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The GW English Department is pleased to announce our first annual Student Poetry Contest. Anyone can enter, and the prize (generously donated …

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