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What we're reading...
Faculty and staff in our department are reading some great books this summer.
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In The Spotlight
New PhD in Linguistics
Beginning in fall 2009 Mason's English Department will offer a PhD in Lingustics. More Info >>
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. George Mason University is a member of the consortium of universities that comprise the Folger Institute, and students in the English department regularly attend plays at the Folger. They also take advantage of the rich offerings of museums, theaters and other cultural institutions in the DC area.
Where can you find in one place experts on
the poetry of John Milton and the literature of the Middle East, folklorists
whose studies reach from Mexico to Maine, film scholars of Hollywood
and Bollywood, cutting-edge courses in digital writing, internationally
renowned poets and novelists, authorities on successful rhetoric, writing
and editing, and a linguist whose web-based archive records and analyzes
the accented English of speakers of nearly 200 languages from around
the world? In the English Department at George Mason University, of
course. Read more >>
Recent Faculty Publications:
Michael Malouf, Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics
Ireland and the Caribbean: islands separated by an ocean but not by history. Michael Malouf’s recently published book, Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics, documents shared Irish and Caribbean poetic and political traditions... Read More >>
Tamara Harvey, Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
What shapes did feminism take before modern feminist movements?This is the question that American literature specialist Tamara Harvey explores in her newly published book Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700. Read More >>