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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 in the City Paper

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October 7, 2008

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In the Washington City Paper blog Mark Athitakis writes: As you may have heard, some smart guy who helps give out the …

Cerebral Stimulation. Also, Dessert.

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October 6, 2008

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Events

Feed your mind and body. See the English Department in action. Meet famous novelists. Learn about the future of literature. Eat something …

Suhayl Saadi Reads Tonight!

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October 6, 2008

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Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 …

Gudelsky Awards for Student Travel to Israel 2008-09

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October 6, 2008

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The Judaic Studies Program at GW is pleased to announce that it will give awards of up to $2,000 each to 3 …

Le Culte Du Moi is Seeking Submissions

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October 5, 2008

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From Alumni Relations

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October 4, 2008

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The Office of Alumni Relations launched the redesigned GW Alumni website. You can view the redesigned site at http://alumni.gwu.edu/index.cfm. Alumni, please update …