




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.
“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 […]
The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”
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 […]
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 following blog was created by students in Professor Mitchell’s Dean’s Scholars in Globalization Class during Spring semester, 2015: “Disabled People and …
Shaun-Dae Clark Reads a Poem Shaun-Dae Clark is a second year student at The George Washington University. She works at Gelman Library …
Vice Provost and Dean of Student Affairs Peter Konwerski Reads a Poem As Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Konwerski is the chief …
This Spring, Daniel DeWisepelare has been teaching Critical Methods (ENGL 2800W), and his students for this course will be presenting their work …
Today is the Critical Methods Symposium and Party! Come and see students (many of them English majors) present their work integrating cultural …
As President of the Residence Hall Association, Mike Massaroli is not only a junior studying Political Science, but he is a legitimate GW Celebrity. …
