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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 […]

A Defense of the Humanities

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March 20, 2009

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by J J Cohen From Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, writing in The Chronicle: The alleviation …

Michael Chabon, Norse Myths, and Alternate Universes

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March 17, 2009

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In anticipation of Michael Chabon reading at GW on March 23 at 7 PM (Jack Morton Auditorium, SMPA), I offer this piece …

GW MEMSI Press Release

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March 16, 2009

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Readers of this blog have known about GW MEMSI for quite some time, but the university just issued the official press release: …

Countdown: Seven Days

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March 16, 2009

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Edward P. Jones introduces Michael ChabonMonday March 23Chabon will read from his works, be interviewed live by Professor Faye Moskowitz, and sign …

Beth Lattin in Forbes

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March 12, 2009

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Alumna Beth Lattin (’08) has a piece in Forbes about graduate school, debt, and planning for the future in uncertain economic times. …

Monday March 23: A Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist Introduces a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

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March 11, 2009

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Events

MICHAEL CHABON MONDAY MARCH 23 7 PM JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM Michael Chabon’s first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was a New …