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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus, and a special welcome to first-year and newly declared English majors just joining us for the first time! The English Department faculty are excited to have you back to our classrooms. Be on the lookout on our Instagram page for a regular series where we promote books appearing on “banned book” lists. We have already on the docket a series of readings that are part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series program.

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 […]

The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and “Yellow Peril”

COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Professor Alexa Alice Joubin recently published an article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. Her article also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the […]

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 […]

University Diaries

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February 23, 2007

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Uncategorized

Associate Professor of English Margaret Soltan is the author of University Diaries. An irreverent take on contemporary academic life, this popular blog …

Robert Ganz on Robert Frost

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February 22, 2007

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Uncategorized

On Sunday February 18 2007, The Washington Post published a review of The Notebooks of Robert Frost by our own Robert Ganz. …

Robert McRuer: Crip Theory

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February 21, 2007

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Spotlights

Last July saw the publication of Robert McRuer’s much anticipated second book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Information about …

More on Nokuthula Mazibuko and the World Literature Residency

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February 20, 2007

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Events

GW’s Fourth Annual World Literature Residency is now underway, with Nokuthula Mazibuko of South Africa in residence at George Washington University for …