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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English Department Annual Report 2007-08

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June 10, 2008
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Each year I am asked by the university to compose a report on the goals and achievements of the English Department. I …

Professor Gil Harris Wins NEH Fellowship

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May 22, 2008
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Jonathan Gil Harris, a popular professor of the early modern period, has been awarded a one year NEH fellowship to work at …

A special thank you to our recent benefactors

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May 20, 2008
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During the month of April three gifts arrived from donors kind enough to sponsor our departmental mission. Donations came from: Mr and …

Best Wishes to the Class of 2008

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May 19, 2008
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On Saturday I had the honor of wishing nearly a hundred English majors CONGRATULATIONS with a handshake and a Columbian College medal …

English Honors and Prize Winners

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May 16, 2008
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The faculty of the English department wish to congratulate the following seniors, who have completed the degree in our major with honors: …

Party with Your Profs

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May 15, 2008
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PARTY HONORING GRADUATING SENIOR ENGLISH MAJORS Please join us for a reception honoring our graduating English majors and their families on Saturday, …

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