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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 […]

Seeking a Creative Writer

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October 14, 2008

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(readers of the post below may recognize that this year we are seeking a replacement for Maxine Clair, who had the gall …

Tom Mallon in the New Yorker

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October 13, 2008

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Check out “Set in Stone: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Memory” in this week’s New Yorker (October 13 2008). A review …

What do professors do with their sabbaticals?

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October 13, 2008

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If you are Margaret Soltan, among the projects you might undertake are blog posts that capture vividly the experience of being by …

GW Grad Student in the News

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October 13, 2008

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From today’s Hatchet, PhD student John Figura: This quest for answers has brought many students, such as English Ph.D. candidate John Figura, …

Introducing Professor Vanashree Banerjee

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October 8, 2008

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Professor Vanashree Banerjee is currently with us at GW from the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University through a Fulbright Visiting …

Attention Students and Alumni: READ THIS

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October 8, 2008

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Events

If you have not registered for this event yet, you are just plain out of your mind. Do I need to tell …