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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 […]

Statement on Senator Rand Paul’s CCAS 3000 Course for GW Students

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April 29, 2017

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Courses

We would like to clarify any erroneous information you may have encountered in the media regarding the Fall 2017 course to be …

GW President Steven Knapp hosts Jenny McKean Moore Reception at the F Street House

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April 24, 2017

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Essays

On a sunny and beautiful evening on Wednesday, April 5th, faculty, friends, and students gathered at the F Street House for a …

Screening Shakespeare with Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, A New Fall 2017 Course Offering

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April 17, 2017

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Courses

Screening Shakespeare (ENGL 6260) Monday, 4:10-6:00 pm Professor Alexa Alice Joubin Fall 2017 Semester Shakespeare has been screened–projected on the silver screen and …

Fall 2017 Course: Shakespeare on Film with Professor Alexa Alice Joubin

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April 17, 2017

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Courses

Shakespeare on Film (ENGL3445) Mon/Wed 12:45-2:00 pm taught by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, offered this fall semester of 2017 Shakespeare’s plays have been …

Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, “Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century”

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April 15, 2017

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Spotlights

Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had …

Mishka Shubaly to Read at the JMM Reading Series on April 26th

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April 13, 2017

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Events

The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Mishka Shubaly April 26th in Gelman 702, 7:30 PM Mishka Shubaly is a musician, memoirist, and marathoner who …