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.
“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 […]
The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”
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 […]
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 […]
The English Department cordially welcomes Steven Knapp as the new president of the George Washington University. In case any readers need further …
Politics & Prose Bookstore presents Thomas Mallon author of Fellow Travelers: A Novel Sunday, July 1, 1 p.m. 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW …
The English Department is happy to announce that a new university seminar we proposed has been funded. The Medieval and Early Modern …
Caren Calamita graduated from the department in winter 2004 and is fondly remembered by her former professors. We caught up with her …
[x-posted from In the Middle] The saddest piece of our job as professors involves the number of farewells that teaching requires. Just …
What a pleasure it was to meet your families at our reception, to hear about your future plans … and to shake …