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Teresa Michals received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and teaches courses on the history of children's literature, nineteenth-century and late eighteenth-century literature, and composition. Her research and teaching focus on changing ideas about age, identity, bodies, and fiction. She ...
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...
Susan Shreve is the author of fourteen novels, most recently YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE published by WWNorton in 2012, reprinted in paperback in 2013. Norton will publish her next novel MORE NEWS TOMORROW in 2017.
In 2007, Houghton Mifflin published her memoir WARM SPRINGS: TRACE...
Catherine E. (Cathy) Saunders teaches introductory and advanced composition and literature in face to face, hybrid, and online formats. Her research interests include 19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans; the American antislavery movement; t...
Children’s literature is fueled by a paradox. It praises the idea that children are close to Nature, that children embody the ideal of living free from all social constraints. At the same time, because families and societies care about their values and about their future, children’s literature is a...
Children’s literature is fueled by a paradox. It praises the idea that children are close to Nature, that children embody the ideal of living free from all social constraints. At the same time, because families and societies care about their values and about their future, children’s literature i...
Phil Goldstein hid his trauma for almost twenty years. A survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of his older brother, Phil did what most male victims do -- he locked his past away from the world. Today, Phil can celebrate the end of that long-held silence through the release of his debut volume of po...
We are thrilled to announce the third year of Poetry Alive!, a program that seeks to uplift and empower students at the Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in their creative writing through interactive classes focused on contemporary poetry. Made possible through funding by ArtsFairfax, the 2024 ...
"It makes them look beautiful."
On April 5, photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah visited George Mason University to present his documentary, Field Niggas, and discuss his art, the spiritual center of his work, and his approach to his subjects. Our discussion was facilitated by Ann Hornaday of th...
Free screening and discussion with director Amanda Rose Wilder
Amanda Rose Wilder's feature film debut dives head first into the inaugural year of the Teddy McArdle Free School in New Jersey, where all classes are voluntary and rules are determined by vote: adults and children have an equal say....