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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.

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From Laura Sinaga’s review of Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in today’s NYT …

Welcome Alumni

Although our undergraduate majors have been enjoying this site for a month, many new readers are finding the English Department’s blog this …

The month long residency of South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko has come to an end. The Embassy of South Africa hosted a …

Below are some reflections on the GW English Department given by our former colleague Gail Kern Paster at Commencement in 2004. Professor …

From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick …

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, the most recent book by Associate Professor of English Robert McRuer, has been honored …