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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 […]

Professor Mallon Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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October 20, 2012

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Thomas Mallon with Daniel Day-Lewis On Saturday, October 7, Professor Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English, was …

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

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October 17, 2012

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Essays

October can be an interesting time for literature professors writing about contemporary novelists, because the Swedish Academy announces the Nobel …

Newark, Philip Roth, and the Grip of History: A Visit by Michael Kimmage

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October 12, 2012

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The Department of English, in association with ALCO, the American Literature and Culture Organization, is pleased to announce another great upcoming event. …

GW’s American Literature and Culture Organization (ALCO)

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October 11, 2012

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http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/images/childlit.gif ALCO is the “American Literature and Culture Organization,” a group in which graduate students and faculty participate in discussions about language …

GW EGSA Symposium 2013 — Call for Papers!

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October 5, 2012

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Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities In his book Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty suggests that “[w]e need to …

Haylie Swenson: First Winner of the Michael Camille Essay Prize

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October 2, 2012

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Congratulations to MEMS PhD student Haylie Swenson for winning the Michael Camille Essay Prize! The prize was established this year and sponsored …