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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 […]

English Department Welcomes Rajiv Menon as Communications Liaison

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June 24, 2008

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We are very pleased to have Rajiv Menon join us this fall as the second Communications Liaison, an undergraduate internship position charged …

Rachael Baird in China

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June 23, 2008

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Rachael Baird, our inaugural (and wonderful) Communications Liaison for the English Department, is now living in China. Check out her blog and …

Calling all research geeks: MLA goes full article

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June 23, 2008

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Yes, I know: it’s summer, and most of us have turned our brains off (I am just back from a family vacation …

Folger Seminar at CCAS website

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June 23, 2008

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To all current and prospective English majors: you too can live the glamorous life of the archival researcher at the Folger. Follow …

More on the Wang Gift

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June 23, 2008

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Follow this link to GW’s press release (which quotes no one from the department that actually received the gift). Follow this link …

Wang Family Gives $700,000 to GWU English Department

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June 11, 2008

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On behalf of the students and faculty of GW’s Department of English, I would like to thank the Wang family, whose generosity …