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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 […]

Staying home this summer? Travel the globe with this Summer Online course: Eng 1710W with Professor Daiya

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May 9, 2016

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Courses

Staying home this summer? Travel the globe with this Summer Online course: Eng 1710W CRN 91670 …

Introducing Assistant Professor Jung Yun

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May 6, 2016

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Spotlights

GW English Professor Jung Yun GW English is excited to introduce you to Jung Yun, who will be joining our faculty in …

New Series Editor at 333Sound: Professor Gayle Wald

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April 30, 2016

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Spotlights

Professor Gayle Wald GW English is happy to announce that English and American Studies Professor Gayle Wald is one of the new editors …

Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest!

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April 20, 2016

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Spotlights

Congratulations to Samsara Counts, winner of the Citizen Day poetry contest! Citizen Day was held in honor of Claudia Rankine’s visit to …

Fall 2016 Course: Literature of the Americas

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April 19, 2016

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Courses

Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and …

Fall 2016 Washington Conference on Trauma: Listening to Trauma: Insights and Actions

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April 19, 2016

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Events

The George Washington University is happy to be hosting the second Washington Conference on Trauma this fall. This multi-disciplinary conference will feature …