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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Join Professor Chu’s Asian American Literature course!

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September 4, 2012
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English 3960-10 (36721) Asian American Literature   MW 12:45-2 p.m. Course Description: This course complicates received ideas of “America” as a nation …

PhD Candidate Lori Brister Delivers Welcome Ceremony Message

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August 31, 2012
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Lori Brister, who is completing her PhD in GW’s English Department under the direction of Professor Jennifer Green-Lewis, was chosen to deliver …

Game, Set, MATCH.

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August 29, 2012
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Graduate students in GW’s English Department have launched a brand new theory reading group. With the start of classes, they are pleased …

Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare at GW

Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare at GW

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August 25, 2012
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    George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English are pleased to announce the Dean’s …

Professor Joubin’s latest book — in German!

Professor Joubin’s latest book — in German!

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August 24, 2012
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GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin‘s new book on world literature and intercultural theater draws on theories of aesthetic humanism to explain …

Professor Mallon Reads and Discusses Watergate

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August 17, 2012
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With major reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere, it would be an understatement to say that Professor Thomas …

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