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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 […]

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 […]

Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison

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September 11, 2017

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Spotlights

The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jennifer Henderson will be our Communications Liaison for the 2017-2018 school year! …

Job Search Workshops September 11 and September 18

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September 8, 2017

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Events

Job Search Workshop: The Candidates’ Perspective Monday September 11 @ 11:00-12:00 Phillips 111 — Modulized CV, cover letter, writing sample, recommendation letters, teaching philosophy …

TOMORROW: Annual Shakespeare Lecture and reception with Dr. Jonathan Hope

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September 7, 2017

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Events

Dr. Jonathan Hope Please join us for the George Washington University’s Medieval & Early Modern Studies Institute’s Annual Shakespeare Lecture and reception …

GW Alum Elizabeth Stephens Publishes Second Novel

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August 4, 2017

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Spotlights

In 2015, we profiled GW Alum Elizabeth Stephens as she published her first novel. You can read that profile here. She’s back …

Summer Reading: Earth

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May 15, 2017

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Essays

Professor Jeffrey Cohen‘s new book Earth is featured as a GW Hatchet summer reading suggestion. Read all about it here, and find …

Literature & the Environment

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May 2, 2017

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Courses

GWU freshmen and sophomores! Looking for an interesting course for next year? Please consider Prof. Cohen’s Literature & the Environment. Contact him …