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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 […]

Folger Undergraduate Seminar Featured in Research Magazine: Now With Streaming Video!

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November 18, 2008

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Check this out. Don’t miss the streaming video, with its Renaissance-y soundtrack. It’s quite excellent. An excerpt from the article: During weekly, …

Alumnus Kathleen Rooney Releases Another Publication!

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November 18, 2008

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Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) …

Two Interesting and Timely Spring 2009 Courses Seek Students

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November 17, 2008

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Both these classes are taught by Professor Jennifer James. 185. 10 TR 12.45-2Slavery, Memory and History in Black Women’s WritingThis course explores …

Undergrads: Some Courses to Consider for SPRING

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November 15, 2008

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I know that all of you have already registered for your spring courses … but if you are not quite happy with …

Suhayl Saadi course reflection (Sadaf Padder)

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November 14, 2008

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Reflection on Suhayl Saadi Course Contemporary Literature Sadaf Padder As soon I received news of another author being brought to campus as …

Suhayl Saadi Course Reflection

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November 14, 2008

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Rajiv Menon writes of the course he took with British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi: My experience with the first British …