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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 […]

English Department Introduces New BA/MA Program

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January 9, 2009

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The GW English Department is happy to announce a new five year program in which majors can earn both a bachelor and …

Free Music. Legal, Too.

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January 9, 2009

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Forget that new three-tiered price plan from iTunes. Get your music free from Gelman Library. Humanities Librarian Cathy Eisenhower writes: The Library …

The BBC @ GWU

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January 7, 2009

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Events

From the English-Speaking Union, a nearby event that might interest you: BBC Radio 4’s ANY QUESTIONS? FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, at 12:30 p.m. …

GW MEMSI receives its charter

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January 4, 2009

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Good news! President Steven Knapp has written to inform us that the GW Medieval and Early Modern Institute has been chartered from …

Tammy Greenwood-Stewart Reads from her New Novel, Two Rivers

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January 2, 2009

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You have three chances to hear acclaimed novelist and GW creative writing teacher Tammy Greenwood-Stewart read from her just-released book Two Rivers: …

“Liaison. A Book of Maps. The End Helps the Beginning.”

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January 1, 2009

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Salutations from the new English Department Communications Liaison, Calder Stembel: “Liaison” is the first word on the first page of the first …