Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Sharon Doetsch-Kidder completed their PhD in English and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their BA and MA at Georgetown University. Their research focuses on antiracist feminist scholarship, activism, and pedagogy. They teach courses on academic research and commun...
Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible has been a staple of the public-school curriculum for decades. Miller’s play is most often approached as a commentary on McCarthyism (i.e., the “hunt” for communists) undertaken in the United States in the mid-20th-century. In this course, we will explore other ...
Stephanie Rambo received her doctorate in English from Louisiana State University. She researches literary Black girlhood across the diaspora, and her research specializations include Black Girlhood Studies, Diasporic Black theory, African American literature, and women and gender studies. She is cur...
Kathryn Marie Meeks is a PhD candidate in the Writing and Rhetoric PhD program at George Mason University. Kathryn teaches undergraduate courses in professional and technical writing. Her research focuses on visual rhetoric across various public spaces. She is particularly studying the role of visual...
Rachael Graham Lussos researches the rhetorics of quantification in the context of chronic pain. She has also studied proposal writing instruction, the rhetoric of sexual assault in news reports, and the activist potential of multimodal composition, examining both birthday cakes and Twitter bots as m...
Poet Susan Tichy (MA, Univ. of Colorado, 1979) is the author of four volumes of poetry and, most recently, Trafficke, a mixed-genre book of poetry and historical narrative focused on her family's 200 years of slave-holding. Her poetry books include A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan); The Ha...
On April 12th, our very own Dr. Alex Monea will be releasing his newest book, The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight, which the publisher describes as "An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and ...
