Shyam Patel received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Irvine, and a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. His research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and culture (particularly politics and aesthetics at the fin de siècle), and the psycho...
Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...
Jessica Hurley is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University, where she teaches classes and supervises research in science fiction, multi-ethnic American, Indigenous, and wor...
Kristin Samuelian received her PhD from Boston University. She teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the nineteenth-century novel, and research methods. She is the author of Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821 (Palgrave, 2010) and The Moving ...
Denise Albanese is Professor of English and Cultural Studies and past director of the Cultural Studies Ph.D. program. She received her doctorate in English Renaissance literature from Stanford University and her BA (with a double major in physics and English) from New York University. She has held fe...
English Honors Courses 2024-25 Fall 2024 ENGH 400: The Witches of American Literature Samaine Lockwood In this seminar, we will study the range of ways that the witch has functioned in American literature and culture from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Often, though not always, the...
How do you imagine a future that you were never meant to be in – and what is the power in doing so? This class explores Indigenous speculative fiction from the twentieth century to the present, reading novels, stories, and films that deploy speculation as a vital tool for decolonization. Reading acro...