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Teresa L Michals

Teresa L Michals

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

Stephanie Rambo

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 R Shreve

Susan R Shreve

         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. Saunders

Catherine E. Saunders

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...

ENGH 202-K02: Texts and ContextsMason Korea Campus

Spring 2024 -  Teresa L Michals   -  Section Syllabus

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...

ENGH 202-K01: Texts and ContextsMason Korea Campus

Spring 2024 -  Teresa L Michals   -  Section Syllabus

  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...

Breaking the Silence in Stillhouse Press’s How to Bury a Boy at Sea 

Breaking the Silence in Stillhouse Press’s How to Bury a Boy at Sea 

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...

Poetry Daily and Juvenile Detention Center Students Dream Big

Poetry Daily and Juvenile Detention Center Students Dream Big

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 ...

GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series: Lemonade cinematographer Khalik Allah

GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series: Lemonade cinematographer Khalik Allah

"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...