-Fulfills Mason Core Requirement for Arts, and for Global Contexts What is a screen? How do screens shape the visual landscape of everyday life? How are screens embedded in and positioned against various forms of popular culture and expressions of power? This course explores these questions while in...
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...
Ann Ardis (PhD, University of Virginia, 1988) is a distinguished scholar and academic leader. She is known for her interdisciplinary research on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. That work focused on the formation of the modernist canon, and the voices, part...
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...
Who is watching the watchers? (T)Error Wednesday 11 November at 4:30pm Johnson Center Cinema Free screening and discussion with Lyric R. Cabral (T)Error is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspectiv...
Kandahar Journals, by Louie Palu and Devin Gallagher (2015) On Monday, 22 February at 7:30pm JCC Free screening and Q&A with Louie Palu Kandahar Journals follows photojournalist Louie Palu's experience while covering the war in Kandahar from 2006 to 2010 and then, its aftermath. With a nar...
"What did it feel like, to keep so many secrets?" On 11 November 2015, Veteran's Day, the GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series hosted a screening of (T)Error, a documentary by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe. Cabral, a photojournalist and first-time documentary filmmaker, was on hand for a Q&...
Dr. Lisa Gilman, Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University and IIR Faculty Affiliate, has released the Dzaleka Art Project website. The art project is a community-based collaborative project by and about the arts and artists living as refugees in the Dzaleka camp in Malawi. Dr. Gi...
We are thrilled to announce the third year of Poetry Alive!, a program that seeks to uplift and empower students at the Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in their creative writing through interactive classes focused on contemporary poetry. Made possible through funding by ArtsFairfax, the 2024 ...
"It makes them look beautiful." On April 5, photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah visited George Mason University to present his documentary, Field Niggas, and discuss his art, the spiritual center of his work, and his approach to his subjects. Our discussion was facilitated by Ann Hornaday of th...
