Welcome Back!
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.

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Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo
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 […]

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English Department Receives a Mellon Grant
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.”

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Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu
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 […]

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PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk
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 […]

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150 Scholars Gather for “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After,” June 4-7, 2013

150 Scholars Gather for “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After,” June 4-7, 2013

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July 2, 2013
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Events

Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 More than 150 scholars and students from a …

Exciting Fall 2013 Offering: Service-Learning with PEN/Faulkner

Exciting Fall 2013 Offering: Service-Learning with PEN/Faulkner

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June 20, 2013
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Courses

An exciting opportunity for interested students! This fall, GW English will continue our partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, specifically its “Writers in Schools” program. Writers in …

Alexa Alice Joubin’s Testimony to Congress on Behalf of the Humanities

Alexa Alice Joubin’s Testimony to Congress on Behalf of the Humanities

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May 28, 2013
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Essays

     Following on the heels of GW President Steve Knapp and Folger Shakespeare Library director Michael Witmore who advocated for funding …

GW English Alums on the Move: Sarah Perillo Writes about Her Publishing Job

GW English Alums on the Move: Sarah Perillo Writes about Her Publishing Job

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May 26, 2013
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Spotlights

On the heels of Graduation 2013, we continue our new series “GW English Alums on the Move.”  We want to hear about …

Introducing Professor David Mitchell

Introducing Professor David Mitchell

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May 21, 2013
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Spotlights

GW English Professor David T. Mitchell GW English is already well known for work in Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry …

Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

Doctoral Candidate Lori Brister Awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship

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May 17, 2013
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Spotlights

PhD Candidate Lori Brister Doctoral candidate Lori Brister has been awarded a 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship by GW’s Office of Graduate Student …

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