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...
Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019). His short fiction and essays have appeared in journals such as World Literature Today, The Southampton Review, Washington Square Review, Fiction International, and Southern Humanities Re...
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...
The courses that are taken offer insight into Harry Potter culture through an immersive experience in Scotland and England. Students will develop a complex understanding of Harry Potter novels, films, and plays through textual, visual, & cultural analysis. We will investigate socio-historical inf...
When you look around, you can find English majors in all kinds of careers. . . . writers, of course, like Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison or Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga (author of The White Tiger: "I've wanted to be a novelist since I was a boy. I studied English literature—a lot of Elizabeth...