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English Department Staff Contacts

English department staff manage a full range of organizational and administrative support for the department, as well as supporting the various needs of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

  • Barb Gomperts

    Barb Gomperts

    Office Manager

    Contact Barb Gomperts (bgompert@gmu.edu) about: Budgets -- State & Foundation; HR for full-time and part-time employees; Position descriptions (PageUp); Searches; Telework & remote work requests; RPT, initial & renewal contracts (single year); Affiliate faculty; Keys, card swipe access; Physical space & technology issues; Short term loaner computer; Telecom / People Finder / Catalog listings

  • Kate Bryan

    Kate Bryan

    Scheduling and Fiscal Coordinator

    Contact Kate Bryan (kbryan21@gmu.edu) about: Course scheduling, classroom changes, departmental and start-up purchasing, travel, and undergrad events (honoraria and catering).

  • Stacey Remick

    Stacey Remick

    Program Coordinator

    Contact Stacey Remick (sremicks@gmu.edu) about: Late adds, Grade changes or incompletes (if you have difficulty with the new system), Receiving course cancellation notices, Conference room and general events room reservation planning, ENGH 101 waiver registrations when students inquire, Hiring search, Adjunct faculty committee 

  • Jay Patel

    Jay Patel

    Graduate Coordinator

    Contact Jay Patel (jpatel2@gmu.edu) about: All tasks that relate to and involve current English MA and PhD/Creative Writing MFA graduate students at George Mason

  • Rafaella Silva

    Rafaella Silva

    Graduate Admissions Outreach Manager

    Contact Rafaella Silva (rsilva8@gmu.edu) about: Graduate admissions inquiries, student awards, purchasing and honorariums for graduate programs and events, English department news for newsletter and social media promotion, Spring Writing Contests, scheduling GTA/GPA interviews, website postings

  • Joshua A Maze

    Joshua A Maze

    Grants & Programs Coordinator

    Contact Josh Maze (jmaze@gmu.edu) about: Grant related questions, purchasing, and reconciling; Travel questions (airfare purchasing, preapprovals, reimbursements, etc); Mason Finance Gateway ; and gift cards for research subject payments 

  • Trang Ngo

    Trang Ngo

    Administrative Assistant

    Contact Trang Ngo (tngo16@gmu.edu) about: designing flyers and posts for the department social media, undergraduate overrides, undergraduate coursebook descriptions, website postings and design edits