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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 […]

Leigha McReynolds Wins Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award

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February 16, 2015

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Spotlights

GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds Recipient of the 2015 Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award GW English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds …

Meet the Sundial Review, A Literary Magazine Started by GW Students

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February 11, 2015

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Spotlights

Last fall GW students Emily Holland (English major, ’16) and Morgan Baskin (International affairs, ’17) decided that they hadn’t found enough creative …

GW English Alums on the Move: Stephanie Gardner

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February 10, 2015

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Spotlights

Stephanie Gardner (BA ’08) STEPHANIE GARDNER: ‘Soak up the world. Really look, really listen.’ Since Stephanie Gardner graduated from our department, she’s been a …

English Honors Program Information Session

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February 8, 2015

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Courses

GW English Majors: Oxford English Dictionary: Exalted rank or position; dignity, distinction We are now accepting applications for the English Department Honors …

#GWDH15: the Disrupting DH Symposium at GW

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February 2, 2015

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Essays

Disrupting DH Roundtable. Photo credit: M.W. Bychowski. The GW Digital Humanities Symposium: DISRUPTING DH took place in the Jack Morton Auditorium on …

Shakespeare in the Mediterranean Information Session

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February 2, 2015

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Courses

Join us for an information session on this exciting GW English Summer Study Abroad course! Read more about the course here. Summer …