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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A Second Announcement from GW’s Literary Magazines

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April 28, 2008
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In addition to Le Culte du Moi, described in a recent post, GW hosts a number of opportunities for its undergraduates to …

BloomsDay in DC

BloomsDay in DC

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April 27, 2008
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All GW faculty and students are invited to attend — and participate in — this hallowed event. If you are willing to …

Announcement from Le Culte du Moi

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April 27, 2008
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Posted at the request of Keren Veisblatt: At Le Culte, we pride ourselves on our exclusivity and the high quality of the …

English Department Reception for Graduating English Majors

English Department Reception for Graduating English Majors

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April 27, 2008
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The English Department will host an informal reception for graduating seniors and their families Saturday, 17 May from 1:30 to 3 p.m. …

Lisa Francavilla on the Nadeem Aslam Reading Course

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April 24, 2008
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Reflection on the Class Contemporary Literature Nadeem Aslam This course was amazing. It provided a unique opportunity for me as an English …

Creative Writing Feature: Drew Welke

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April 23, 2008
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This feature is the beginning of a story entitled “Baby Danny” by Drew Welke, a student in Ginnie Hartman’s Intermediate Fiction 103 …

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