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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 […]

“American Girls” by Jane Shore

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May 15, 2007

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Essays

from the latest edition of the GW student publication le culte du moi American Girls by Jane Shore The first of the …

It’s that time of the year…

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May 7, 2007

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Uncategorized

The faculty of the English Department extends its very best wishes to our undergraduate majors as they finish their term papers and …

Nadeem Aslam to be writer in residence (autumn 2007)

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April 30, 2007

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Events

Renowned British author Nadeem Aslam will be the GW English Department’s inaugural British Council Writer in Residence during the fall 2007 semester. …

Literature of the Americas (English 40W)

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April 23, 2007

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Uncategorized

English 40W, “Literature of the Americas,” is a new course that reflects recent intellectual developments within the field of American literary studies. …

Via Blank Device

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April 19, 2007

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Events

Check out the blog for this GW student group … and if you are in DC, watch the rumble between these fearsome …

Congratulations to Gayle Wald …

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April 18, 2007

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Spotlights

… on the birth of Zachary Adam yesterday morning. GW class of 2029!