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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 […]

“Newsweek” Dubs Mallon’s Novel “Watergate” One of 12 for 2012

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January 12, 2012

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In February, GW English Professor Thomas Mallon’s new novel Watergate will be published by Pantheon. (Go here to pre-order your copy.) A …

New Lounge Near Completion

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January 10, 2012

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Jenny Moore Writer-in-Residence Tim Johnson relaxes in the new lounge. The renovations of the English Department lounge are almost complete. You’ve got …

Renee Calarco’s Kicks Off Theater J’s “Locally Grown” Initiative

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January 3, 2012

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The Religion Thing, a world premiere comedy by GW playwriting professor Renee Calarco, kicks off Theater J’s “Locally Grown: Community Supported Art/From …