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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 […]

Suhayl Saadi on “Literature in a Global Age”

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October 28, 2008

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The month long GW-British Council residency of novelist, playwright and polymath Suhayl Saadi has come to its end. Dominick Chilcott, the British …

Creative Writing Courses with Jason Filardi and Edward P. Jones

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October 28, 2008

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The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome …

A blog post you will without doubt not read to completion

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October 26, 2008

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We know that title sounds gloomy, but we also know what the economy is like right now. We know that the paragraph …

Call For Papers: Public Writing

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October 25, 2008

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Public Writing: A Cultural Studies Journal for Undergraduate Writers provides a lively and provocative online forum for undergraduate writers who are engaged …

A suggestion to GW from the English Department Chair

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October 24, 2008

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This morning I sent the following email to Helen Cannaday-Saulny, GW’s Assistant Vice President for Student Academic Support Services. I don’t understand …

Jane Shore @ Gelman October 30

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October 24, 2008

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Events

Come hear the inimitable Jane Shore discuss her latest book of poetry A Yes-or-No Answer (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) Faculty Authors Book Signing …