




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.
“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 […]
The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”
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 […]
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 […]
The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year. On Friday, September 5, …
Waimea community mural depicting first Poynesian explorers coming to Kaua’i. Photo: Sharon Snyder As Fall Semester 2014 is about to kick off, …
The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left …
Professor McRuer in Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología It’s hard to believe that it’s already mid-August and that classes at The George …
Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang NPR has been asking poets to talk about their summers by reading their poems. We’re pleased that our …
It’s that lazy time of the summer–the spring semester has ended and the humidity is high. But we won’t let humidity get …
