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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 […]

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 […]

Lindsay Bernal Reads for the Jenny McKean Moore Series September 27

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September 7, 2018

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Events

The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series welcomes poet Lindsay Bernal. She is the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition.

Lisa Duggan to Speak September 7

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August 24, 2018

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Events

Lisa Duggan New York University Welcome to the Fall 2018 semester! The English Department is happy to announce that our first big …

GW’s Jennifer Chang Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award & Published in the New Yorker

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April 19, 2018

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Spotlights

Please join the English Department in congratulating our very own, Professor Jennifer Chang, on her most recent accomplishments! Professor Chang is this …