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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 […]

Fall 2016 Course: Faulkner and Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics with Professor Schreiber

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April 19, 2016

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Courses

Faulkner and Morrison: Race, Memory, and Aesthetics ENGL 3820W (CRN 15624) Professor Evelyn Schreiber Tuesday/Thursday 12:45-2:00 PM This exciting Fall 2016 course …

The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg

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April 18, 2016

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Events

The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 7:30PM …

EGSA Dissertation Roundtable this Friday at 3pm Phillips 629

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April 13, 2016

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Events

Please join EGSA this Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Phil 629 for a candid discussion hour. Whether you are a Masters …

Fall 2016 course: Disability Studies (Why Art Matters)

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April 12, 2016

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Courses

Disability Studies: Composing Disability, or Why Art Matters ENGL 3910.10 (CRN 14687) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 12:45-2 This course offers a gateway …

Fall 2016 Course: Vikings, Mongols, Moors

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April 12, 2016

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Courses

Note this NEW course being offered by Prof. Jonathan Hsy this fall! This course fulfills the pre-1700 requirement of the English major. …

The Washington Area Romanticists Group Hosts Anne McCarthy

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April 11, 2016

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Events

Saturday, April 16th, 10AM-Noon Rome Hall, 771 Professor Anne McCarthy’s presentation for the Washington Area Romanticists Group is entitled “How To Love …