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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 […]

l’shana tova

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September 12, 2007

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Here’s wishing a good new year to all readers of the English Department’s blog.

A note to current English majors

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September 12, 2007

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Events

Dear English major, I hope that your semester is off to a good start. Many of you will have noticed that we …

Jonathan Hsy joins English Department Faculty

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September 11, 2007

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We are very happy to welcome the medievalist Jonathan Hsy to our faculty. We asked Professor Hsy to say a few words …

Chaucer and Writing in the Disciplines

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September 6, 2007

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A few years ago GW initiated a Writing in the Disciplines (WID) program to ensure that the attention to writing given in …

Literature of the Americas

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September 5, 2007

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This fall we’ve introduced a new undergraduate literature course that places American texts within a hemispheric frame. Taught by Gayle Wald, the …

Summer Reading

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August 30, 2007

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The short stretch between June and August is one of the few times I have a chance to read some non-work related …