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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 […]

GW University Teaching Day

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September 8, 2022

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Events

The 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day will take place in Gelman Library on October 6. Register here to attend the free …

WoW Talk on Trans Studies and Why It Matters

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September 7, 2022

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Events

GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin is giving a WoW Talk today on Trans Studies and Why It Matters. Here is the …

Welcome Back! Fall 2022

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August 28, 2022

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Essays

Welcome back to campus, and a special welcome to first-year and newly declared English majors just joining us for the first time! The English Department faculty are excited to have you back to our classrooms.

Screening Shakespeare

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August 23, 2022

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Courses

We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, with openly-licensed learning modules on mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.

New Books Network Podcast

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February 23, 2022

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Essays

Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and …

A poster showing a photo of author James Han Mattson and the cover of his novel reprieve. Mattson is of Korean descent, has short black hair and wears glasses. The cover for the novel is a painting from the aerial view, showing a large, ominous house and a car approaching it on a pathway.

Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series: Fiction Writer James Han Mattson

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November 9, 2021

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Events

Author James Han Mattson will appear virtually to read from his newly released novel, Reprieve, and take part in a discussion about …