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.

Robert McRuer, Chair 
Patricia Chu, Deputy Chair
Evelyn Schreiber, Director of Undergraduate Advising
Marshall Alcorn, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Thomas Mallon, Director of Creative Writing
Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Graduate Studies
Constance Kibler,  Manager, Department Operations
Linda Terry, Senior Secretary