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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Inaugural poets

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January 14, 2009
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Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the …

From an alumna: chuckle for the day

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January 13, 2009
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(but we all know where a degree in English lit actually leads) [thanks, Beth Lattin!]

A Note for English Majors

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January 13, 2009
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As you know, award winning author Edward P Jones is our first Wang Professor of Contemporary Literature. He will be in residence …

The Countdown Begins: SEVENTEEN

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January 12, 2009
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17 days until the Edward P Jones Inaugural Reading at the Jack Morton Auditorium (January 29 at 5 PM).

The English Department Thanks Its December Donors

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January 11, 2009
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The following individuals supported the English Department in December. We thank them for their generous support, especially in these difficult economic times. …

Special One Credit Course with Edward P. Jones

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January 9, 2009
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The English Department is pleased to announced that Edward P. Jones will be teaching a special one credit course for a small …

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