Welcome Back!
Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2023-2024 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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Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo
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 […]

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

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Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu
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 […]

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PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk
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 […]

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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

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

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 …

A Note from the Chair

A Note from the Chair

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February 16, 2007
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Essays

I was hired as an assistant professor by the George Washington University in 1994, and have been happy to be a part …

Nokuthula Mazibuko

Nokuthula Mazibuko

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February 15, 2007
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Events

The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is …

Disability Studies Across the Curriculum

Disability Studies Across the Curriculum

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February 9, 2007
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Events

The English Department is a proud co-sponsor of the conference Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, to be held at GW …

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