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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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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September 3, 2008
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Hello everybody, my name is Rajiv Menon and I am the English department’s new communications liaison. I am a junior, majoring in …

Literature Research Guides from Gelman

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September 3, 2008
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Cathy Eisenhower, the Gelman Library subject specialist for English, has created two excelelnt research guides that will be of great use to …

Do Not Miss This Once in a Lifetime Course: Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures

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September 3, 2008
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NEW COURSE FOR FALL 2008INTERESTED STUDENTS PLEASE CONTACTROBERT MCRUER ATrmcruer@gwu.edu English 179.60Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ CulturesWednesdays 2-4 PM George Washington UniversityDepartment …

New Major Requirements

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September 2, 2008
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We have made some important changes to the requirements for the major in English. They apply to you, however, only if you …

How Do I Become a Hollywood Screenwriter?

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September 2, 2008
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From Alumni Relations: GW Alumni Association’s “How Do I Become A…” lecture series welcomes distinguished alumnus Jason Filardi, CCAS BA ’93, to …

To All Current English Majors: Welcome Back!

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September 2, 2008
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On this, the first day of classes, my colleagues in the English Department and I would like to welcome you back to …

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