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...
Mark Rudnicki teaches courses in advanced composition, research methods, philosophy & literature, and the immigrant experience through literature. Previously, he taught at University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, and George Washington University. He is the recipient of two Kosciuszko Found...
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...
Digital Storytelling (DTS) is a interdisciplinary field that utilizes traditional narrative storytelling with photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and a narrative voice to produce multimedia narratives. Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in ...
Digital Storytelling (DTS) is a interdisciplinary field that utilizes traditional narrative storytelling with photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and a narrative voice to produce multimedia narratives. Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in ...
This class will neither ask nor answer the question “what is science fiction.” Instead, we will pose a more interesting and challenging question: “what does science fiction do?” How has SF allowed writers and thinkers to address changing technological and social realities? How does it help us to anal...
George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Fall 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 that...
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...
The minor in Screen Cultures explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and m...