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A professor of medieval literature offers some time-honored study tips from the world of medieval education.

On November 16, 2019, Marstellar Middle School in Bristow, Virginia, hosted the first of what is hoped-to-become an annual writing conference for teens interested in becoming better writers. The Write Turns conference is the brainchild of current George Mason University MFA student Heather Osial, an English teacher at Marstellar.

Nov 12 at 4:30pm: When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza joins a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.

Penny Lane's entertaining, incisive documentary tracks the media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple as they organize a series of public actions advocating for religious freedom and challenging corrupt authority. With intelligence and a wicked sense of humor, they speak truth to power in truly profound ways.

Samaine Lockwood, director of undergraduate studies and associate professor in the Department of English, will be spending a portion of summer 2020 honing her leadership skills while taking part in the HERS Institute at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

"It’s important to see the migrants as individuals. Everyone sees them as a menace or a statistic. Nobody even sees them."