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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 […]

The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase

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February 5, 2016

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Events

The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase Friday, February 12 12:30 – 3 p.m. Please RSVP here #GWDH16 Everyone is invited to a showcase …

The 2016 EGSA Student Symposium: Border Crossings

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February 5, 2016

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Events

Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings! Friday, February 12th …

On the Road: Doing Shakespeare While Black

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February 4, 2016

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Essays

Doing Shakespeare While Black? By Alexa Alice Joubin In Robeson’s Footsteps: Black and Asian Shakespeare Now, a conference organized by the University of …

Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century

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January 31, 2016

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Events

Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot …