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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 […]

Professor Tara Wallace: This Weekend at the Jane Austen Society of North America

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September 5, 2014

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Events

The Jane Austen Society of North America announces: Registration for our September 7 program ends Tuesday, September 2 [now extended to September 6]. Cost …

Jordan Coggins: New Communications Liaison

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September 5, 2014

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Spotlights

The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jordan Coggins will be our Communications Liaison for the 2014-2015 school year! As …

Professor Faye Moskowitz to Lecture at the GW Alumni House

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September 4, 2014

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Events

Professor Faye Moskowitz LUNCHTIME LECTURE Patchwork Quilts and the Jewish Concept of the Kapore GW ALUMNI HOUSE, 1918 F STREET, NW Wednesday, September 17, …

Professor Margaret Soltan Talks Poetry: Who Is Charles Wright?

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September 3, 2014

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Events

On Saturday, September 13, DC Library Presents: Professor Margaret Soltan talking about poetry and Charles Wright, the new poet laureate of the …

Framing Ferguson: A Panel and Audience Discussion

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August 29, 2014

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Events

This coming Wednesday: an important panel and audience discussion sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and the Multicultural Student Services Center.

GW English Alums on the Move: Joanna Falk

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August 25, 2014

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Spotlights

Joanna Falk, Class of 2013 “Consider everything that’s being said about the crisis of the humanities, but continue to study what you …