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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Jewish American Literature Live @ GW

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February 23, 2009
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You may have heard that David Bruce Smith generously funded an undergraduate course taught by Faye Moskowitz. “Jewish Literature Live” brings the …

What’s in a Poster?

What’s in a Poster?

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February 23, 2009
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Events

Student elections are this Wednesday and Thursday at GW, and a very large pool of SA, MCGB, and PB candidates have come …

As My Term in Office Dwindles, Some Thoughts on Our Graduate Program

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February 22, 2009
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In 2006 I was elected by my colleagues to serve a three year term as chair of the English Department. Doing so …

Student Blogs

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February 22, 2009
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Here are two blogs by current GW students: one, two. Here is one from a former GW English major. Are there more? …

Alumnus Update: Michael Bonett Jr

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February 21, 2009
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I was so pleased to receive an email from Michael Bonett, Jr., my former student and advisee in the English Department. He …

Jada Bradley on The Known World Panel

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February 20, 2009
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DC Writer Jada Bradley attended our recent panel Knowing the Known World, and blogs about the experience at Examiner.com My thanks to …

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