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.

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 […]

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.”

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 […]

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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Had you taken Prof. Carrillo’s class on “Evil,” you, too, could have written about Marilyn Manson.  For this post, I’ll just quote …

Beacon Press, 1993 The Feminist Press, 2011    The English Department cordially invites you to join us for a celebration of Prof. …

Although you wouldn’t know it from the mild manner of those of us who inhabit Rome 760, the English Department has been …

Congratulations to Marissa Fretes, a freshman English major, for her op-ed piece in today’s Hatchet. In her editorial, Fretes argues that the …

And our lounge today!

Our lounge space was painted yesterday, and today the new carpeting was put down. (This photo doesn’t do the carpet justice.) Now …

And our lounge today

We’re getting there. Paining is being done today, and new carpets are being installed tomorrow. By next week we will have a …