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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 […]

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 […]

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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UK Writer in Residence Website

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November 5, 2008

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Missing Suhayl Saadi? You might be interested in this British Council website, which brings together information on the many UK artists the …

English 40W Spring 2009: Myths of Britain

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November 4, 2008

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English 40W: Myths of Britain Spring Semester 2009Jeffrey J. Cohen Much great English literature turns out not to be so English after …

Alumnus Update: Jason Fillardi

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November 3, 2008

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Jason Fillardi, who will be teaching a course on screenwriting next semester, provides the GW English blog with this brief biography:“Jason Filardi …

Congratulations to Joe Fisher …

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November 3, 2008

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… who was nominated for the parent choice award at this year’s GW Service Excellence Celebration. Joe was described in the nomination …