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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Alumna Update: Kathleen Rooney

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March 12, 2008
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Kathleen Rooney, a 2002 graduate, brings us much pride as a GW alum. Through my email exchanges with Kathleen, I have been …

Creative Writing Student Feature

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March 11, 2008
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Carrie Cummings is a student in Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 2, 107W, class. Mother’s Arrival in Omaha, 1985 He peeled her off …

A Reading List from Nadeem Aslam

A Reading List from Nadeem Aslam

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March 8, 2008
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To commemorate our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, the British Council is generously providing a substantial book fund. Nadeem Aslam has drawn …

A student reflects upon the British Council Writer in Residence

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March 7, 2008
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Rajiv Menon, a junior here at GW, was one of ten students enrolled in a one-credit reading course with our GW-British Council …

Prof. Wald Speaks on “Stunning” Panel

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March 6, 2008
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On Monday, March 3, Prof. Gayle Wald participated in Woolly Mammoth Theater’s panel discussion for its new play, “Stunning.” Prof. Wald was …

GW Creative Writing Students

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March 6, 2008
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The poem below is from senior Sam Chiron, who is a Political Science major. Sam is taking Jane Shore’s Advanced Poetry (117W) …

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