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.

Marshall Alcorn, Chair 
Patricia Chu, Deputy Chair
Evelyn Schreiber, Director of Undergraduate Advising
Antonio Lopez, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing
Tara Wallace, Director of Graduate Studies
Chris Sten, Director of MA Program in English
Constance Kibler, Manager, Department Operations 
Linda Terry, Senior Secretary