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...
Folklorist Margaret R. Yocom (PhD, English, U of Massachusetts, Amherst) specializes in traditional narrative, material culture, family folklore, and gender studies. The director of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive, she established the English Department's Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Co...
Past Event
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier, 3rd Floor
"LOOKING FOR JIMMY" with David Leeming A lecture & conversation: 1:30-2:45 pm, Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier 3rd Floor, GMU, Fairfax, VAProf. Keith Clark will host David Leeming. David Leeming met James Baldwin in Istanbul in 1961. In 1994, Knopf published Leemings “James Baldwin: A B...
I received my PhD in American Literature with a specialty in Asian American Literature from The George Washington University in 2005. I have been privileged to live and teach in international settings including The American University in Dubai and the Kachin Refugee School in Malaysia where I helpe...
Elena Macdonald (she/they) is a first-year MFA candidate concentrating in nonfiction. They graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing at GMU in December 2021. Some of her favorite writers are Carmen Maria Machado, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, and Melissa Febos. Elena enjoys exploring identity, queerness...
Lauren Hornbuckle is a Creative Nonfiction student in the MFA program at George Mason University. She received her BA in English, with an emphasis on literature and nonfiction creative writing, from George Mason University in 2022. Her writing primarily focuses on the dynamics of family, food, and me...
Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...