Shelley Reid is currently Executive Director of Engaged Teaching at the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, and also teaches a range of courses for the English Department on writing, the teaching of writing, and writing program scholarship. Her recent articles in Composition Studies, Pedagogy, ...
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...
Heidi Y. Lawrence teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing and rhetoric. Her research focuses on the rhetorics of medical and scientific controversies, specifically public debates about vaccinations. She studies the role that professional communication produced by physicians...
Tamara Harvey's research and teaching interests include early American and women's literature as well as literary theory. She is the author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (Ashgate, 2008) as well as a number of articles exploring comparative approaches to colo...
Amelia Rutledge earned her PhD from Yale University in Medieval Studies with a primary focus on Old French romance, and secondary studies in pre-Scholastic theology and Old Icelandic literature. Teaching interests include medieval literature (especially Arthurian legend) and intellectual history, sci...
Teresa Michals received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and teaches courses on the history of children's literature, nineteenth-century and late eighteenth-century literature, and composition. Her research and teaching focus on changing ideas about age, identity, bodies, and fiction. She ...
Marriya Schwarz is an adjunct professor in the English department at George Mason. She teaches composition at GMU, American University, and NOVA Community College. In creative endeavors, Marriya Schwarz focuses on comedy, fiction, and non-fiction. She has worked in TV development, working for showr...
