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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English Department Courses for Fall 2009

English Department Courses for Fall 2009

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March 24, 2009
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Course descriptions for fall semester upper-division English classes may be accessed here. Please keep these courses in mind when making your choices: …

Discussion Groups for The Known World

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March 24, 2009
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Come to a discussion of Edward Jones’s The Known WorldIt’s the second session of THE BIG READ. Interested? Just show up! Thursday, …

Poet Kwame Alexander @ Gelman

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March 24, 2009
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Kwame Alexander’s And Then You KnowNew and Selected Poems at Gelman Library’s Special Collections Research CenterPoetry Reading and Reception On April 9 …

“A Kind of Map of Life” at Gelman

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March 24, 2009
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Gelman Library Exhibit Opening: “A Kind of Map of Life”: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones Stop by Café G on the …

Margaret Soltan on Gchat

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March 23, 2009
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Professor Margaret Soltan, via Columbia News Service, talking about Gchat and professor-student interaction: For Margaret Soltan, an English professor at George Washington …

MICHAEL CHABON @ JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM

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March 22, 2009
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MICHAEL CHABON MONDAY MARCH 23 7 PMJACK MORTON AUDITORIUM Michael Chabon’s first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was a New York …

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