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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 […]

Politics, Sex, Sentiment! (And a fulfilled GPAC Oral Requirement)

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November 21, 2014

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Courses

Hogarth, Beggar’s Opera GW Students: another class to consider for Spring 2015. This class now fulfills the GPAC Oral Requirement. The Eighteenth …

Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: Race, Memory and Aesthetics

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November 20, 2014

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Courses

GW Students: Another great course for Spring 2015! Study Toni Morrison and William Faulkner with Professor Evelyn Schreiber (president of the Toni …

The Cultural Memory of Slavery in Literature and Film

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November 19, 2014

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Courses

GW Students! We’ll be featuring a few of our Spring 2015 courses here over the next week. Consider signing up for English …

Transvisceral: The 2015 EGSA Symposium

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November 19, 2014

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Events

TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American …