This course looks at the global city on screen in relation to questions of crime and criminality, surveillance and occupation, hopes and fears, gender and sexuality, resistance and revolution, and space and belonging. While the “global city” occupies a central position in the generation and global ci...
Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...
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...
Scott W. Berg is an author, journalist, and professor of nonfiction writing. He has published three books of narrative history--Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C., and 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Fronti...
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...
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of English Matters, the English Department's twice-yearly newsmagazine. You can find the full issue here. In Spring 2023, Mason’s Film and Media Studies program was rebranded Screen Cultures, but more than a simple renaming, this shift recog...
CHR interviewed Steve Barnes in advance of the launch of his online speaker series "Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective." CHR was very glad to hear you were organizing this wonderful series on the war in Ukraine and bringing such a great line-up of experts on the topic to our commun...
All text from the ArtsFairfax Press Release. Read it here. Arts Innovation Award: Fall for the Book New in 2022, the Arts Innovation Award recognizes an organization that has implemented nontraditional or inventive approaches to their art form and has uniquely engaged audiences in the arts. In r...
