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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.

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 […]

Senior Spotlight: Hailey Katzenberger

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November 12, 2022

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Spotlights

Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Hailey Katzenberger from Oceanport, New Jersey! Hailey will be working as a paralegal assistant in a corporate law firm here in DC after she graduates in December.

Senior Spotlight: Abby Simard

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November 9, 2022

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Spotlights

Meet Abby Simard from Farmington, Connecticut! Abby has loved writing for as long as she can remember, and after taking some creative …

Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey

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November 4, 2022

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Spotlights

Meet this week’s GW English Senior Spotlight: Promise Harvey from West Philadelphia,

Meet Our Alumni: Jennifer Cheng

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November 4, 2022

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Spotlights

Meet our first Alumni Spotlight of the year: Jennifer Cheng! Jennifer studies English because it feels like a way for her to …

Graduate Students and Faculty Honored

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October 19, 2022

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Spotlights

Several English department graduate students and faculty were honored at the 12th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony on October 18, 2022 at George Washington University.

Why English audiences have the toughest time with Shakespeare

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October 13, 2022

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Essays

(Paris, AFP) All the world’s a stage but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time …