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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 […]

Attention Alumni: Edward P Jones Event Just for You

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December 12, 2008

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KNOWING “THE KNOWN WORLD” Conversation and Reception with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Edward P. Jones Wednesday, February 18 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. …

The English Department Thanks Those Who Contributed to Its First Annual Drive

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December 12, 2008

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Our sincere gratitude to the following alumni who contributed to our departmental mission last month: Michael Y. Bennett (2002) Winston Eldridge (1985) …

We Really Did Give Away 1000 Books at the Marvin Center yesterday …

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December 11, 2008

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… but if you missed out and are not so benighted that you have no interest in reading The Known World by …

English Department to Award $500 for Best Student Poem This Spring

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December 5, 2008

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Through the generosity of a GW donor, the English Department will hold a competition this spring for the best student poem. The …

New Facebook Page. Also, Old Facebook Page.

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December 5, 2008

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If you want to keep up via Facebook with all things related to the Edward P. Jones residency, join this group. And …

Edward P. Jones Residency: Some Dates to Remember

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December 3, 2008

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Events

December 10 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m): One thousand copies of The Known World will be given away for FREE in the …