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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 […]

SIX days and counting

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January 23, 2009

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6 days remain until the Edward P. Jones reading at the Jack Morton Auditorium (Thursday January 29 @ 5 PM). In his …

The Hippo Lives

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January 22, 2009

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In results that surprised everyone me, our poll has declared that the Hippo mascot will LIVE. One hundred and six votes were …

Happy Day-After-Inauguration

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January 21, 2009

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I hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s festivities as much as I did … and I hope that you are not suffering from …

PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at Lisner Auditorium

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January 17, 2009

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Events

Friday January 23rd // 07:30 PM // $7 students; $10 public // GWU Lisner Auditorium PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at Lisner Auditorium …

Inauguration Weekend

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January 16, 2009

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by J J Cohen So you may have heard that the DC area has gone a bit overboard in prepping for the …

Kill the Hippo?

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January 14, 2009

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Unless you are reading the GWEnglish blog via Facebook, Google Reader, or some other RSS feed compiler, you will notice that to …