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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 […]

Margaret Soltan: An Interview, and a Lecture Series

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November 10, 2015

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Events

Margaret Soltan was interviewed recently by Radio Poland, which asked her about her memories of Wojciech Fangor, Poland’s most important modern painter. …

Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan

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November 6, 2015

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Events

Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 7:30PM in the Marvin center as …

Novelist Tom Mallon Celebrates with Radio Host, Garrison Keillor

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November 5, 2015

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Spotlights

Professor Thomas Mallon was recently featured on “The Writer’s Almanac:” http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20151102/ Today is the birthday of the man who said, “I am …

Student Feeback on The Course Formerly Known as Critical Methods

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November 1, 2015

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Courses

Jacques Derrida Critical Methods [newly named Introduction to Critical Theory] is one of the greatest classes I’ve taken at GW. The course …

SPRING 2016 COURSES: Professor David McAleavey’s Poetry Explodes in America

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October 26, 2015

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Courses

Professor McAleavey’s Spring 2016 course: POETRY EXPLODES IN AMERICA (American Poetry II) ENGL 3621 This course examines important books by eleven American …

GW English Alums on the Move: Madeline Dennis-Yates

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October 23, 2015

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Spotlights

Madeline Dennis-Yates, BA ’15 The work of Madeline Dennis-Yates, a May graduate of the English Department, was chosen for the final selection …