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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 […]

Nalini Natarajan: “Atlantic Gandhi, Caribbean Gandhian”

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November 3, 2008

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Events

Coming this Thursday to Rome 771. All are welcome!

José Muñoz to be Second Wang Visiting Professor (Fall 2009)

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October 31, 2008

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Here is the official press release. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY NAMES JOSE MUNOZ AS WANG VISITING PROFESSOR IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE Munoz …

Beth Lattin in Forbes

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October 31, 2008

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English Department alumna Beth Lattin (class of 2008) has her first article in Forbes: “Blue States Would Sing Obama Tax Blues.” Congratulations, …

GW English’s Featured Undergraduates

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October 30, 2008

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Those of you who have been by the English department on the 7th floor might have noticed the department’s empty bulletin board. …

Alumnus update: T. J. Miller

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October 30, 2008

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Actor, comedian and GW alumnus T. J. Miller (did you see Cloverfield?) sent me this note about star faculty member Pati Griffith: …

Feedback on Suhayl Saadi Residency

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October 30, 2008

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If you are a current GW undergraduate and you had the chance to meet our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi, …