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Rising senior Alaina Ruffin, the incoming president of Mason's NAACP chapter, received the 2022 Gloster B. Current Organizer of the Year Award and the Medgar Wiley Evers Youth Leadership Award in the College Short Story Category.

Jaime Lester, associate dean of faculty affairs and strategic initiatives, and professor in the Higher Education program, and Samaine Lockwood, director of undergraduate programs and associate professor in the Department of English, are taking part in the nine-day intensive program.  

Congratulations to Stephanie Arhin (MFA '17) who is the new Recruitment and Diversity Program Manager for the Federal Railroad Administration.

Steppingblocks has listed Mason as one of the top ten public R1 universities in the mid-Atlantic region for producing graduates with English degrees. English department chair Tamara Harvey helps explain why that's important.

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Mason’s University Libraries and Watershed Lit in presenting the Fall 2022 Visiting Writers Series, which will feature two writers each in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The Cheuse Center for International Writers partnered with the Middle East Institute (MEI) Arts and Culture Center and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation to create a two-day virtual, literary festival Narrating The Middle East: The DC Arab Literature Festival. “Literature offers audiences a chance to see the world through the eyes of others and the DC Arab Literature Festival is a window into the complex issues that writers in the Middle East are grappling with today,” said Kate Seelye, Executive Vice President at the Middle East Institute.

Congratulations to English Professors Hyunyoung Cho and Cathy Saunders, selected by the Center for Humanities Research to receive summer funding for their projects related to the humanities.

New in 2022, the Arts Innovation Award recognizes an organization that has implemented nontraditional or inventive approaches to their art form and has uniquely engaged audiences in the arts. In recognition of their forward-thinking literary programming, Fall for the Book is the Arts Innovation Award’s inaugural recipient.

Julija Pivo, 2020 graduate from Mason’s BFA program, has won a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship to Lithuania, starting in Summer 2022. The award not only caps an impressive career at Mason, but also brings a family journey full circle: Pivo’s late father was a Fulbright scholar from Lithuania to America from 2000 - 2001.