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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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Death and the Subaltern”

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November 10, 2008
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This Thursday at 6 PM in Rome 771. All are welcome.

Alumnus Update: Madhur Bansal

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November 8, 2008
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2005 graduate Madhur Bansal provides the GW English blog with this biography: After graduating from GW in 2005, I served in the …

Musty books? We’re all over that: Folger Seminar featured in GW Research Magazine

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November 7, 2008
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From the latest edition of Research & Discovery: In an extraordinary seminar that started last fall, The George Washington University and the …

Two courses to keep in mind for Spring 2009

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November 6, 2008
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Please keep in mind the two competitive-admission courses we are offering for the spring: 1. Screenwriting with Jason Filardi (Filardi is a …

For current majors: pre-1800 courses for spring 2009

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November 6, 2008
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We’ve had many questions about whether Patrick Cook’s “Shakespeare on Film” (English 129) and Jonathan Hsy’s “Histories of the English Language” (179.11) …

“Touching the Past” Symposium Friday

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November 6, 2008
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