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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 Magazine Seeks Parenting Stories from Alums

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January 30, 2015

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Essays

English alumni: GW Magazine wants to hear about the day that you became parents. Since the magazine’s spring issue will be out …

Siegfried Huffnagle: Meet the New Communications Liaison

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January 27, 2015

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Spotlights

At Stonehenge, 2014 The GW English Department is proud to announce that Siegfried Huffnagle will be the communications liaison for …

Creative Writing in GW Today

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January 26, 2015

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Courses

“For lessons in literature,” GW Today reminds readers, “George Washington University students do not have to rely on just books—they can meet …

GW English Professors on Twitter

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January 24, 2015

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Spotlights

Professor Hsy tweets @Jonathan Hsy GW English is on Twitter! And we thought it might be useful to our readers, especially as …

Disrupting Digital Humanities Symposium: January 30

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January 23, 2015

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Events

Shakespeare in the Mediterranean: Summer 2015

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January 18, 2015

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Courses

Shakespeare never traveled beyond England, but the Mediterranean, especially Italy, inhabited his imagination and that of his audience. Venetian Canals Dubrovnik from …