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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.

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It is with great sorrow that we note the sudden death of Jonathon Lucks, an alumnus of the English Department (class of …

Was it T. S. Eliot who wrote “February is the shortest month / Mixing brevity with terseness / Except when leap year …

Don’t miss your chance to study the history of the book at the Folger. Applications due March 10. More information here.

The GW English Department would like to thank the following benefactors for their generous support this year: Jenny Anne Burkholder (class of …

Congratulations! Earlier this month, it was announced that Tammy Greenwood-Stewart was chosen for the Individual Artist Award for her fiction. The fiction …

Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones reflects upon literary traditions, finding one’s voice, and the work of black women …