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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 […]

Stocks Fall Like Satellites, Auden Weighs In

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October 1, 2008

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Hi, again. It’s me, Kirk. Did you hear about this?! [Washington Post]A grenade was found in Rock Creek Park this morning & …

Mark Your Calendar: Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading January 29 2009

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September 29, 2008

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We know it’s early to be advertising this, but why not place the date on your calendar now? Edward P. Jones, the …

¡Quejío!: Shout!’ (Suhayl Saadi, October 13)

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September 27, 2008

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Suhayl Saadi describes his talk on Monday, October 13, 2008; 8:15 p.m. (Media and Public Affairs Building. Room B07, 801 21st NW …

Update on our Alumni Open House

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September 27, 2008

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Our sincere apologies for the fact that our tea and sherry swilling party was cut short by the evacuation of the Academic …

Alumni Open House Today 3-5

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September 26, 2008

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Please stop by the English Department office (Rome Hall 760) for tea, cookies, and sherry. If you are a current student, you …

“Touching the Past” November 7

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September 25, 2008

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Events

Please join us for the inaugural event of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (GW MEMSI), a symposium on Touching …