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The Shakespeare Association of America will hold its Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. This event is sponsored in part by the George Mason English Department and its Office of the Provost.
The SAA program runs from April 9 to11.
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In The Spotlight
The English faculty at Mason pursues a wide range of research topics including the following:
- British Romantic poetry and literary celebrity
- Arab feminist novelists in the West
- masculinity and African American literature
- translation and science in 17th century England
- Eminem and the politics of hip-hop
- digital culture and writing communities
- the politics of recovered memory
- public rhetoric and the South African Truth Commission
- the origins of children's literature in 18th and 19th c. Britain
Spotlight on Research
Yoonmee Chang
What images come to mind when you hear the phrase “Asian American ghetto”? Is there such a thing? Aren’t Asian Americans model minorities, either immune to poverty or through hard work and self-sufficiency expected to pull themselves quickly out of it? These are the framing questions that Yoonmee Chang addresses in her current manuscript... Read more>>
Accent Archive Project
Steven Weinberger
What makes a Latvian speaker of English sound different from a Kiswahili speaker of English? And can we tell if a speaker is from New Zealand or from Australia? These are a few of the questions that the Speech Accent Archive can help to answer. Read More >>