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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 […]

Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page in Conversation

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March 6, 2015

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Events

Join Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Brando Skyhorse and Acting Director of Creative Writing Lisa Page in a discussion to be held this …

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Shakespeare in the Mediterranean

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March 6, 2015

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Courses

There’s still a chance to follow Shakespeare to Italy and Croatia. Read our original blog post here. The deadline for Shakespeare in …

GW English Alums on the Move: The Poetry of Andrew Kozma

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March 3, 2015

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Spotlights

Andrew Kozma “GW was the place where I first dreamed myself as a writer.” GW English and Dramatic Literature Alum and poet …

Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast with Professor Ayanna Thompson

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February 27, 2015

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Essays

GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson Professor Ayanna Thompson has been featured on the Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, available on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s …

Teddy Wayne Reads This Thursday in JMM Reading Series

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February 24, 2015

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Events

Next Open Space Student Reading: This Monday!

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February 19, 2015

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Events