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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 […]

Vaddey Ratner Reading Tomorrow

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February 12, 2013

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Events

Vaddey Ratner Reading February 12th 7:30 PM Honors Townhouse (714 21st St NW) Author of the New York Times bestselling novel In the …

The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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February 10, 2013

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Spotlights

Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor …

On the Road: Alexa’s Travels Part 2

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February 7, 2013

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Essays

A beautiful peacock-in-residence in the arts building on the campus of University of Western Australia, Perth. He clearly owns the place. Alexa …

On the Road: Alexa’s Travels Part 1

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February 7, 2013

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Essays

Professor Alexa Alice Joubin on Shakespeare Around the World (Part 1): Four continents. Three oceans. Two hemispheres. One summer. Lots of …

On the Road: Professor Kavita Daiya in Mumbai

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February 6, 2013

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Essays

Professor Daiya on Mumbai, Migration and More Professor Kavita Daiya I traveled to Mumbai (India) over the December holidays to continue my …

EGSA Symposium: A Symposium on Failed Fixities

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February 5, 2013

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Events

The English Graduate Student Association welcomes graduates and undergraduates to attend the 2013 EGSA Symposium “Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on …