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Minor in Medieval Studies

The Middle Ages has had a powerful, long-lasting effect on cultures worldwide. A medieval studies curriculum enables students to discover just how much of our modern world can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The Minor Program in Medieval Studies has been designed as an interdisciplinary minor, to ...

Jacqueline M. Burek

Jacqueline M. Burek

My research focuses on medieval historical writing, and in particular, the ways in which medieval authors conceptualize and write about 'the past.' I work primarily on English, Latin, and Welsh historiography, from Bede to the Middle English Prose Brut. More broadly, I am also interested in classical...

Amelia Rutledge

Amelia Rutledge

Amelia Rutledge earned her PhD from Yale University in Medieval Studies with a primary focus on Old French romance, and secondary studies in pre-Scholastic theology and Old Icelandic literature. Teaching interests include medieval literature (especially Arthurian legend) and intellectual history, sci...

Hyunyoung Cho

Hyunyoung Cho

A native of South Korea, Hyunyoung Cho received her BA and MA at Seoul National University and came to the U.S. for her doctoral study, receiving her Ph.D. in English literature at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In Spring 2014, she joined Mason Korea as a founding faculty member of the ...

John P Walter

John P Walter

John Walter isa Ph.D. candidate in the Writing and Rhetoric program and has served as the graduate assistant director of Writing Across the Curriculum. His current research interests center around the interdisciplinary intersections of rhetoric and writing studies, digital curation, memory, media eco...

Literature concentration in the BA in English

The Literature concentration provides a rigorous course of study in literatures and cultures from the medieval period through the present day. Students may organize their concentration around a specific genre, historical period, theme, or national literature.

BA in English

Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As an English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn...

Katherine M. Miscavige

Katherine M. Miscavige

Katherine Miscavige currently teaches Advanced Composition and a course on Arthurian literature. She earned a Ph.D. in medieval literature from Stony Brook University in 2016. Before coming to Mason, she worked in the teaching and learning center at the George Washington University providing professi...

Screen Cultures concentration in the BA in English

The Screen Cultures concentration provides formal, historical and theoretical frameworks for the understanding and appreciation of visual cultures. The introductory course to film studies focuses on formal characteristics and vocabulary of film, with attention to its historical and ideological dimens...