This February, MFA students Chelsea Lebron and Jaime Goh will be teaching creative writing courses for the Mason Community Arts Academy, the community arts education division of George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. For the first time at George Mason University, MFA teachin...
Sylvia Schreiner is a linguist specializing in syntax, morphology, semantics, and language documentation & revitalization. Much of her work to date has focused on the morphosyntax and semantics of tense, aspect, mood, and modality. She leads an NSF CAREER project documenting Akuzipik/St. Lawrence...
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. ...
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...
Isidore K. Dorpenyo is associate professor of professional writing and rhetoric in the Department of English at George Mason University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in technical, scientific and professional communication. His research interests include intercultural communicati...
Upcoming Event
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center is hosting its second public BUSBOYS AND POETS LECTURE on April 23rd, 2024 at 6:30pm at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (formerly Old Lee Hwy), Fairfax, VA 22030. Parking Map: On parking I don't know if you are famil...
On April 17th, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will continue its centennial celebration of famed novelist, essayist, and orator James Baldwin with The Symposium: Why Baldwin Matters. The day-long event will feature lecture and conversation "Looking for Jimmy" with David Leeming, Baldwin’...
Dr. McKinley Green (he/him) studies queer rhetorics, community-based research, and sexual health risk communication around HIV/AIDS. His current research project investigates how young people living with HIV communicate about HIV risk on social media and dating applications. This project works from a...
Presently, I’ve evolved to understand and embrace writing’s transformative ability to liberate. Writing allows us to confront, interrogate, plan, and reimagine what influences our past, present, and future through the lens of possibility. As a former writing instructor, assistant professor, and curre...
