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Marguerite Rippy

Marguerite Rippy

Marguerite has served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Academic Affairs in CHSS since 2020. She focuses on supporting a diverse portfolio of graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, raising the profile of graduate student and faculty research, and making connections between CHSS and regi...

Courtney Angela Brkic

Courtney Angela Brkic

Courtney Angela Brkic (M.F.A., New York University, 2001) is the author of The First Rule of Swimming (Little, Brown, and Company, 2013), Stillness: and Other Stories (FSG, 2003) and The Stone Fields (FSG, 2004). Her work has also appeared in Zoetrope, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine...

Jessica Scarlata

Jessica Scarlata

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...

Mark S Rudnicki

Mark S Rudnicki

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...

2023 Spring Writing Contest Winners Announced

2023 Spring Writing Contest Winners Announced

Six George Mason University students were awarded $500 each as winners of this year’s Spring Writing Contests. The contests are an annual tradition presented by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program. Winners included Brenna R. Fuhr for "Blessed are the Meek" (GMU Rinehart Fiction Award j...

Jaime Goh wins Robert Raymond Scholarship

Jaime Goh wins Robert Raymond Scholarship

Jaime Goh, a first-year MFA student in Creative Writing, has been named the recipient of this year’s Robert Raymond Scholarship, encouraging students who contribute to the MFA program’s diversity. The Robert Raymond Scholarship was established in 2018 by Roz Gann, a former Mason professor and former ...

Jason Osder and Let the Fire Burn at GMU

Jason Osder and Let the Fire Burn at GMU

On Wednesday, 19 March 2014, the Film & Media Studies Visiting Filmmakers Series brought the award-winning Let the Fire Burn and director Jason Osder to the Johnson Center Cinema. The event brought together George Mason University faculty and students, as well as some community members who rememb...