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Mason's Center for Humanities Research has issued a call for papers for its first interdisciplinary symposium, "Pasts/Presents/Futures," seeking proposals from faculty and advanced PhD candidates. The symposium takes place April 7-8; proposals are due December 1.

The Miami Book Fair invited Our Last Blue Moon author Kris O'Shee, Cheuse Center Assistant Director Elizabeth Gutting, Cheuse Center Board Chair and former Mason Creative Writing Director Bill Miller, writer Ana Menéndez and poet Robert Pinsky to discuss O'Shee's memoir of her life, love, and loss of Alan Cheuse, the "voice of books" on NPR.

Sociology doctoral student LeNaya Crandall Hezel and writing and rhetoric doctoral student Lt. Col. Michelle Ruehl are part of the 2021 class of Tillman Scholars, named in honor of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 while serving with the U.S. Army Rangers.

CHSS fall 2021 graduates will have two options for in-person Winter Graduation celebrations: attend a Patriot Procession event on December 14-15, or a formal Graduation Ceremony on December 16.

Ginny Eggerton, MFA’ 21, served as the Managing Editor on Stillhouse Press’s newest collection of short stories, Michelle Ross’s Shapeshifting. This collection uses lyrical prose to explore the shadows within the social media perfectionism and cult of motherhood. “I fell in love with the collection because of Michelle Ross’s choice to tap into the less talked about fears and concerns about motherhood. . . "

Lise Funderburg, author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity and editor of Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, appears as part of the Fall Visiting Writers Series.

Matthew Davis, The Cheuse Center's Director, shares his thoughts on literature's accessibility.
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The Fall Visiting Writers Series continues with poet Myung Mi Kim, author most recently on Civil Bound.

Substitute teaching in Northern Virginia convinced Alexander Kruszewski, BA English, BS Physics '17, to pursue a teaching certification program. He will launch that career as a 2021 WW Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow.