Jessica Scarlata is an associate professor of English and film and media studies and the director of the Screen Cultures minor (formerly Film and Media Studies) in CHSS. Her work addresses questions of incarceration, contested geographies and memories, and an approach to globalization that emphasizes...
Poet Susan Tichy (MA, Univ. of Colorado, 1979) is the author of four volumes of poetry and, most recently, Trafficke, a mixed-genre book of poetry and historical narrative focused on her family's 200 years of slave-holding. Her poetry books include A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan); The Ha...
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...
Jessica Hurley is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University, where she teaches classes and supervises research in science fiction, multi-ethnic American, Indigenous, and wor...
Mika Endo earned her B.A. and M.A. at Doshisha University and her PhD in history at George Mason University. Her PhD dissertation titled "Redefining Race: Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and American Indian Identification” explores the implementation of the 1924 Act and the damage to indigeno...
Keith Clark is Professor of English and African and African American Studies. He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (1985) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993). He is the author of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines and Augus...
In this seminar, we will study the range of ways that the witch has functioned in American literature and culture from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Often, though not always, the witch is an unmarried woman who lives on the margins of society, a figure through whom powerful ideas about...