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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 […]

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.”

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 […]

Nadeem Aslam Reading and Dessert Reception

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December 17, 2007

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Events

Register Now, and Mark Your Calendar for Thursday February 7 at 7 PM Fiction Reading and Reception with Author Nadeem Aslam 2008 …

Nadeem Aslam in Residence from Feb 1-29, 2008

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December 10, 2007

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We are pleased to announce that Nadeem Aslam’s visa has been granted, and that the GW-British Council Writer in Residence has been …

Attention wealthy alumni

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November 15, 2007

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Events

Recently I was invited to give the Holloway Lecture at McDaniel College. Held once a year on a literary topic of wide …

Jehangir Malegam @ MEMSeminar

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November 12, 2007

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The last Medieval and Early Modern Seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, November 30th from 9-11 AM in Rome …

The Humanities at GW

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November 12, 2007

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Dear English majors, The plenary lecture given by Stephen Greenblatt this Wednesday at 10 AM in the Marvin Center is an important …

T-shirt contest winner

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November 9, 2007

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Congratulations to Matt Munkacsy, winner of our T-Shirt contest! (This is NOT Matt in the picture above). To buy your own T-shirt, …