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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 […]

Jim English lecture: Wed., March 5 at 2:30 p.m.

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March 4, 2014

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Events

The GWU English Department, British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster and the University Honors Program invite you to a lecture: Translated From the …

Alexa Alice Joubin Awarded ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and Fulbright Distinguished Chair

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February 22, 2014

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Spotlights

Alexa will be spending the 2014-15 academic year in London. Alexa Alice Joubin has been named the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in …

Focus on English Alums: Gabriel Muller ’13

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February 18, 2014

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Spotlights

Gabriel Muller, an English minor who graduated in 2013, is working for Atlantic Media here in DC (in the Watergate building, in …

Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap

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February 16, 2014

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Spotlights

Global Shakespeares Symposium, a Recap by Jason Demeter (originally published in The Shakespeare Standard) Global Shakespeares Symposium was held in January 2014 …

An Alyssa Hard Event: Perfumed Letters

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February 13, 2014

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Events

Perfumed Letters: a roundtable discussion of perfume & literature Author Alyssa Harad Friday, February 21st 11-1 pm Marvin Center Rm. 301 The event …

The PhD Job Search

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February 12, 2014

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Events

#Altac / #Postac: Rethinking the PhD Job Search in the Humanities Thursday, February 20th from 4-6pm in Rome Hall room 771 With graduation …