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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Reflections from a Graduating Senior

Reflections from a Graduating Senior

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May 16, 2013
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Eva Hansen reflects on her time with the GW English Department The Practicality of Impracticality; Or, Why Being an English Major  Was …

Introducing Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang

Introducing Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang

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May 14, 2013
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GW English Professor Jennifer Chang As we continue our Introducing New Faculty series, we’re excited to introduce you to Jennifer Chang, who …

Introducing Professor Ayanna Thompson

Introducing Professor Ayanna Thompson

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May 8, 2013
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GW English Professor Ayanna Thompson We are happy to roll out a new series for this blog, Introducing New Faculty.  Over the …

Graduate Student D Gilson Wins Larry Neal Poetry Award

Graduate Student D Gilson Wins Larry Neal Poetry Award

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May 5, 2013
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D. Gilson (center) with graduate students Maia Gil’Adi (left) and Rachel Obenschain (right) On Friday, PhD student D. Gilson won the Larry …

GW English Alums On the Move: Ania Soltan and Rajiv Menon

GW English Alums On the Move: Ania Soltan and Rajiv Menon

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May 3, 2013
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Ireland’s Abbey Theatre In her first week as an intern in the literary department of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, Ania Soltan (who graduated from GW last year with an …

A Message from the Chair

A Message from the Chair

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May 2, 2013
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Graduation is nearly here and GW English is very much looking forward to celebrating the Class of 2013.  We are so proud …

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