Robert Matz (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1993; BA, Cornell University, 1986) is a professor of English and campus dean of George Mason University, Korea. His field is Renaissance Literature. He has published essays on Shakespeare and on Renaissance poetry and poetic theory, as well as two books, D...
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 ...
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...
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.
The Folklore and Mythology concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes and material culture items as they are performed within...
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...