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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 […]

Professors Jennifer James and Jennifer C. Nash on Ferguson

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April 23, 2015

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Events

GW Professors Jennifer James and Jennifer C. Nash are part of a forum accessible online this month in Feminist Studies. The forum …

Music Professor Steve Hilmy Reads a Poem

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April 22, 2015

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Spotlights

Steve Hilmy is a rare breed of professor—insanely knowledgeable and the type that you’d want to go get a beer with because …

Avra Bossov Reads a Poem

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April 22, 2015

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Spotlights

Avra Bossov is a senior in GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs, majoring in Political Communications with minors in Sustainability and …

TODAY: Shakespeare’s Birthday! Starting 2pm at Gelman terrace

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April 21, 2015

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Events

Come celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday TODAY with GW English students and faculty. This birthday bash (with food, poetry readings, crafts, and more) starts …