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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Hear the Hippo’s Eloquent Roar: We Are on Facebook

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August 30, 2008
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Though our site is only a day old and therefore has little content that makes it worth your time, nonetheless — because …

Are you on our mailing list?

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August 28, 2008
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If you’ve donated money to the department over the past year, you are already on our mailing list (your name should also …

Jewish Literary Festival

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August 28, 2008
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From the DC JCCHyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival September 14-24, 20008 What goes on inside the mind of a …

Save the Date: Literature in a Global Age, October 22

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August 27, 2008
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A Special Alumni EventPlease join the English Department for a panel discussion on “Literature in a Global Age,” the past and future …

Tayari Jones on Kirk Larsen

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August 26, 2008
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Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones — one of the most beloved teachers ever to fill that position — …

Edward P. Jones to be Inaugural Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature

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August 25, 2008
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The first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature will be Edward P. Jones, an African American author of world fame. A …

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