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...
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...
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’...
Stephanie Rambo received her doctorate in English from Louisiana State University. She researches literary Black girlhood across the diaspora, and her research specializations include Black Girlhood Studies, Diasporic Black theory, African American literature, and women and gender studies. She is cur...
Professor Mehta brings a multi disciplinary approach to her teaching. She currently teaches undergraduate seminars in International Literature, and Creative Writing. She is simultaneously the Interim Director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center. Her work as an editor and curator features ...
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...
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...
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...
I was born in Washington, D.C.; grew up in Bethesda, Maryland; vacationed with my family on the Delaware coast; and went to college in Tidewater Virginia. Perhaps it is for that reason that my initial scholarly interest in literature and culture of the American South changed over time into a more sp...
Jacqueline Burek is assistant professor in medieval literature. Her research focuses on medieval historical writing, and in particular, the ways in which medieval authors conceptualize and write about 'the past.' She works primarily on historiography in Latin, Middle English, and Middle Welsh, from B...
