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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On “Literature in a Global Age”

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October 23, 2008
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The office of department chair yields much fodder for complaint: the hours can be long (yesterday I arrived on campus at 7:15 …

The English Department Thanks …

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October 22, 2008
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Eric Alexander Brichto, a current student at GW, for his recent and generous donation. We’re truly grateful that someone who is still …

Would You Like to Take a Course on Screenwriting with a Famous Hollywood Writer?

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October 22, 2008
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The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing …

RSVP for “Touching the Past”

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October 22, 2008
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If you intend to attend the Touching the Past symposium (the inaugural event of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute) …

Guess who is coming to campus on Monday March 23?

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October 21, 2008
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(and he will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, no less. Details to follow here)

Application for English 182 (Spring 2009): REVISED

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October 21, 2008
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We will have two very special versions of English 182 this coming spring. More information will follow here, but for the time …

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