Department of English

The English Department of the George Washington University is a research-active community of scholars and creative writers. We prize excellence in teaching, publication, and service. We engage with a diversity of texts within a global and transnational context. Our creative writing and scholarship contributes to and critiques this capacious literary world. Our teaching fosters in students a rigorous and informed critical reflection on literature, connecting reading practices with writing and argumentation. As a humanities faculty, we are especially interested in the artistic exploration of identity, community, cultural conflict, and history.

Gayle Wald, Chair 
Jennifer Green-Lewis, Acting Deputy Chair
Patricia Chu, Director of Undergraduate Advising
Marshall Alcorn, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing
Robert McRuer, Director of Graduate Studies
Constance Kibler, Departmental Operations Manager
Linda Terry, Senior Secretary