Heidi Y. Lawrence teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing and rhetoric. Her research focuses on the rhetorics of medical and scientific controversies, specifically public debates about vaccinations. She studies the role that professional communication produced by physicians...
Rachael Graham Lussos researches the rhetorics of quantification in the context of chronic pain. She has also studied proposal writing instruction, the rhetoric of sexual assault in news reports, and the activist potential of multimodal composition, examining both birthday cakes and Twitter bots as m...
Emma Bussard is currently an MA student in the Folklore Studies Program at Mason. Her research interests include: folk art and craft, folk medicine/ethnobotany, and foodways. Emma is also serving as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of American Folklore, which is currently housed at George Mas...
When you look around, you can find English majors in all kinds of careers. . . . writers, of course, like Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison or Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga (author of The White Tiger: "I've wanted to be a novelist since I was a boy. I studied English literature—a lot of Elizabeth...
George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then participate in programs th...
