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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 […]

Professor Ayanna Thompson in the New York Times

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October 6, 2016

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Essays

GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson The New York Times recently reported on Play On! a project sponsored by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival asking …

Save the Date! GW English Fall Open House October 27

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September 29, 2016

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Courses

Join us during our Open House to find out more about all the wonderful things you could do as an English major …

On the Road: GW English Professors in Macau

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September 27, 2016

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Spotlights

GW English Professors Daniel DeWispelare and David McAleavey (back row) and Jennifer Chang and Patty Chu (front row) flanked by University of …

GW English Alums on the Move: Gabe Muller

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September 20, 2016

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Spotlights

Gabe Muller (GW English Minor, ’13) with Diane von Furstenberg Gabe Muller, English Minor, Diane von Furstenberg Intimate Okay, maybe not intimate; …

GW English Alums on the Move: Professor Jennifer Nelson

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September 14, 2016

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Spotlights

Jennifer Nelson (BA, ’88), Chair of the English Department at Gallaudet University and an English major during her time at GW, talks to Professor …

Introducing Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis

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September 7, 2016

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Spotlights

Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Melinda Moustakis The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting …