George Mason University

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 about the department, its many degrees and certificates, its work in the community, and the research and creative activity of the faculty.

Carla Marcantonio: New Angles on Film

Mason professor Carla Marcantonio, whose dissertation studied acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s work, says his film Broken Embraces is "Very self-reflexive about the process of making movies. The main character is a stand-in for Almodóvar himself, and the film is partly a meditation on what it would be like for the director who depends on the visual to lose his eyesight.” Read More >>

Eric Eisner on Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

Eisner's Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity analyzes the ways poets and their readers adjusted to the new modes of fame and fandom that appeared along with the rise of mass media, a mass audience for literature, and new techniques of marketing and journalism in the nineteenth century. Read More >>

Two New Student Awards

The English Department announces two new student prizes, both made possible by the generous gift of an anonymous alumni donor. Each award is named for and honors a former member of the George Mason English Department. The Robert Karlson prize provides $500 to the year's outstanding graduate student in the English Department's MA programs. The Aileen Walls prize provides $500 to an outstanding graduating English major. Read More >>