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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 […]

Jody Bolz to read at Politics & Prose

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November 21, 2013

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Events

Former GW English Creative Writing Professor Jody Bolz has a new book of poetry out and will be reading at Politics & …

GW English Alums on the Move: “Everyone always asks me if I was a journalism major …”

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November 17, 2013

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Spotlights

… writes Chloe Rome, a recent GW English major who’s now working at CNN in Atlanta. “Most people are surprised when I …

A Discussion with Andy Chih-Ming Wang

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November 11, 2013

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Events

The East Asian Humanities Lecture Series Hosts Andy Chih-Ming Wang November 15th at 12:30 in the Lindner Family Commons (1957 E St NW, …

Professor Kavita Daiya Speaks at the State Department’s Institute for Foreign Services

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October 30, 2013

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Spotlights

GW English Professor Kavita Daiya Prof. Kavita Daiya, who teaches postcolonial and South Asian American Literature and Cinema in the department recently …