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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 […]

MARGARET SOLTAN AT GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND AT BOOKS@WORK

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January 17, 2015

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Events

Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for …

Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age

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January 16, 2015

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Events

GW English PhD (’08) Myra Remigio-Leonard is among the DC librarians working to organize a series of events in January titled “Orwellian …

UPDATED: Jewish Literature Live is Back: Spring 2015 Schedule

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January 13, 2015

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Events

Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard’s schedule now requires her …

Creative Writing Reception: This Thursday!

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January 12, 2015

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Events

Professor Frederick Pollack Publishes New Poetry Collection

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January 9, 2015

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Spotlights

GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by …

GW English Alums on the Move: Nirmala Menon (PhD ’08)

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January 6, 2015

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Spotlights

Nirmala Menon GW PhD, 2008 “YOU NEVER QUITE GROW UP FROM WANTING TO CHANGE THE WORLD” – Nirmala Menon talks about her …