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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 […]

Folger Seminar on Books and Early Modern Culture

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August 29, 2007

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In partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library, the George Washington University is pleased to offer a new seminar on Books and Early …

Letter from an English Major

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August 28, 2007

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As many of this blog’s readers will have heard, beloved professor of English and longtime director of undergraduate advising Lee Salamon retired …

What to do with an English major

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August 14, 2007

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We asked the class of 2007 to let us know what career paths they were following upon graduating from our program. Their …

Some Highlights from the Department’s Annual Report

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July 24, 2007

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English Departmental Annual Report Form (AY 06-07)Prepared by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Chair Major Accomplishments This academic year marked a profound moment of …

Featured alumna: Annie Kelly

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July 17, 2007

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Annie Kelly writes: After graduating from GW in May I got a job working for Senator John McCain’s Presidential campaign as the …

Stephen Knapp’s Literary Domain

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July 16, 2007

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The English Department cordially welcomes Steven Knapp as the new president of the George Washington University. In case any readers need further …