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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 […]

Queer/Disability Symposium December 7

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November 27, 2019

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Events

still from Marguerite (Marianne Farley, 2017) Students in English 3980W and 3910 invite you to attend a public symposium where they will …

Beyond Black and White: Race in the World, 3:40 pm Thursday Nov. 7

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November 6, 2019

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Events

Join us for an interactive workshop on thinking beyond blackness and whiteness in the history of race at the GW Diversity Summit …

Our Open House and Toni Morrison Tribute

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November 2, 2019

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Essays

Our Open House this afternoon brought together a wide variety of English Department community members, everyone from first-year students to graduating seniors, …