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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 […]

Bruce MacKinnon wins WWPH Poetry Contest

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September 25, 2007

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Bruce MacKinnon teaches creative writing here at GW. His wonderful new book of poems is called Mystery Schools. Here are some endorsements …

Department creates Director of Undergraduate Study

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September 24, 2007

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As chair of the department I’m in frequent contact with our alumni, men and women who have gone on to an array …

GW English Mission Statement

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September 21, 2007

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The faculty of the English Department voted unanimously yesterday to adopt the following as our mission statement: The English Department of the …

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM PUBLIC READINGS AND EVENTS Fall 2007

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September 20, 2007

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Events

All events are free and open to the public; seating is limited. The Marvin Center is found at 800 21st St. NW, …

Never say no to cheap Shakespeare

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September 19, 2007

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Reading Course with Nadeem Aslam

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September 17, 2007

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The English Department has arranged for interested majors to enjoy a 1 credit reading course with our esteemed British Council Writer in …