Home - Department of English

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 Featured in Times Higher Education on Internet Privacy

•

January 4, 2015

•

Spotlights

In a cautionary piece about teaching university-sponsored online courses, Times Higher Education (THE) quotes extensively from Professor Margaret Soltan’s remarks about the subject …

Crip/Queer Studies in the GW English Graduate Program

•

December 19, 2014

•

Courses

GW English Alums on the Move: Laura Greenfield at Hampshire College

•

December 7, 2014

•

Spotlights

Dr. Laura Greenfield GW English PhD ’07 Laura Greenfield (GW English PhD 2007) is founder and executive director of Women’s Voices Worldwide, …

Next Open Space Open Mic Student Reading: TOMORROW at 7:30 PM

•

December 3, 2014

•

Events

Judith Plotz Receives Children’s Literature Association Award

•

December 2, 2014

•

Spotlights

Professor Plotz’s Award Plaque Professor Emerita Judith Plotz UPDATE: Professor Emerita Judith Plotz has now received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, at …

18th Century and More with Professor Seavey

•

November 24, 2014

•

Courses

Michel de Montaigne GW Students! Professor Ormond Seavey’s courses for spring afford some great opportunities for exposing yourself to a wide range …