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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 […]

English Department Receives a Mellon Grant

The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”

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 […]

British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster News

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September 20, 2013

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Essays

Here is some news from our British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster, where some faculty have been publishing new research and forging exciting …

Introducing Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Residence: Molly McCloskey

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September 15, 2013

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Spotlights

The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who …

On the Road: Professor DeWispelare in Ireland and Scotland

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September 9, 2013

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Essays

A view of Dublin Our first Academic Year 2013-2014 entry in our On the Road series comes from Assistant Professor Daniel DeWispelare: …

Fall Sneak Peek

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September 7, 2013

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Spotlights

http://lunchbuddiesplus.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/backtoschool.gif Now that we’re all settled in for the semester, and following the great turnout for the Inaugural Digital Humanities/Dean’s Scholar in …