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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Harvard English Department Changes Name to Be More Like GW

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July 1, 2008
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Harvard University possesses a department with the verbose designation “English and American Literature and Language.” At a recent faculty meeting, Professor James …

Alumnus Update: Andrew Ratner

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June 30, 2008
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I graduated GW University in May of 2007. During that period in which most of the seniors (including myself) were thinking, “What …

Alumni Weekend Open House

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June 27, 2008
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If you are an alumnus of the English Department and will be attending the Alumni Reunion Weekend, please stop by the English …

Changes to the English Major

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June 25, 2008
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Undergraduates who declare their English major on July 1 2008 or later will progress towards the degree under the following requirements. The …

Robert McRuer and Jane Shore in the latest By George!

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June 24, 2008
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The June 2006 edition of By George! includes the following words about two overachieving professors of English, Robert McRuer and Jane Shore: …

New blog: Wynken de Worde

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June 24, 2008
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Check out the new blog by Sarah Werner, Wynken de Worde. The undergraduate program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dr. Werner …

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