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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 […]

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!

Conference on Zionism at GW

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April 16, 2007

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Several faculty members in the English department also serve on the Judaic Studies Committee. We would like to bring this important conference …

Ann Romines on Eudora Welty’s Cake

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April 9, 2007

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We scholars publish much that can be described charitably as dry. It’s a pleasure to post here some scholarship that is not …

A history of the World Literature Residency

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April 8, 2007

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Events

The Dean of Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at GW, then William Frawley, started the World Literature Residency in 2004, working …

José Buscaglia-Salgado at GW

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April 5, 2007

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Events

Please come to the English Department Colloquium featuring Professor José Buscaglia-Salgado “The Dissolution of Form: Metaphorical Subjectivity in Caribbean Mulataje and the …

Vikram Chandra to read at GW

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April 4, 2007

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Events

Vikram Chandra, formerly a professor of English in our department, will be reading from his latest work on Thursday April 5 at …