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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 […]

Happy Thanksgiving from GW English

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November 24, 2016

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Essays

We at GW English hope that your Thanksgiving Break is a restful one surrounded by loved ones … and perhaps curled up …

GWU Department of English

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November 17, 2016

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Spotlights

GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 GW English and Creative Writing affirm that we are absolutely committed to fostering programs …

Haiku Contest Winners

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November 15, 2016

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Spotlights

The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative …

Disability and Queer Sexuality in Russia

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November 10, 2016

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Events

Professor Alexander Kondakov A late addition to our calendar! Next Thursday, Professor Alexander Kondakov of the European University at St. Petersburg will …