English Department

08/26/2024

Welcome back and happy first day of the Fall 2024 semester! We hope you have a great semester and year!!

07/22/2024

Happy Monday! Let’s start this week off with a fun meme!

This one feels rather , huh?

05/13/2024

Happy Summer Vacation students!
We hope you enjoy the warm weather and sun! See you in the Fall!

For those taking summer classes, you got this!

11/27/2023

ENGH 488-611-822: Material Rhetorics (Craftivism)

This class, cross-listed on the 400-, 600-, and 800-levels, explores material and public rhetoric, critiques of “maker culture,” multimodality, and the rhetorical possibilities of “craftivism.” Craftivism is a playful form of activism that takes up traditional "domestic arts" to protest and unsettle social norms. Students will work collaboratively across areas, interests, and levels of academic expertise. At heart, our deep dive into rhetorical and multimodal scholarship will open out acts of making as a critical intervention in “materials, designs, constraints, and outcomes [ . . . to] perform a practice-based engagement with pragmatic and theoretical issues” (Ratto 253).

The course is being taught by Professor Michelle LaFrance on Wednesdays at 7:20PM-10PM

11/14/2023

11/08/2023

10/24/2023

Come learn about undergraduate and graduate-level degree opportunities in Folklore Studies from George Mason University!

Mason's Folklore Program is holding an information session regarding its graduate-level Folklore Studies program offerings. This online event is open to Mason undergraduates, graduate students, and anyone interested in exploring graduate degree options and/or careers in folklore.

You will learn about:
--Mason's Folklore Studies program, professors, and students

--Undergraduate and Graduate-level folklore degrees and certificates offered at Mason

--Career opportunities for graduates with a degree in folklore

At this event, you will hear from and engage with faculty and current graduate students in the Folklore Studies program at Mason. They will share about their experiences, what to expect in the program and more.

Come equipped with any questions you may have! See you then!

To RSVP, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mason-folklore-program-prospective-student-open-house-tickets-735954699317?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/24/2023

Attend our MFA Online Open House and learn how PEOPLE MAKE THE PLACE and how we can help with the FUNDING THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Meet students, speak with faculty, and get your questions answered by MFA program administration.

Monday, November 20, 2023 7:00 PM EST
Zoom
RSVP here: https://creativewriting.gmu.edu/events/15210

FACT SHEET
-- Graduate assistantship stipends have increased to $23,000 (a 40% increase in five years!).

-- For the last three years, we have been able to fully fund (stipend, full tuition waiver, and optional health insurance for all three years) every new student who has been offered a graduate assistantship (92% of our students are funded).

-- We now offer two GA options: Graduate Teaching Assistantships that deliver pedagogical instruction and classroom experience teaching composition, literature, and creative writing, and Graduate Professional Assistantships that support the work of Watershed Lit and deliver skills in publishing (traditional and online), editing, marketing, grant writing, literary program presentation, and global literary community building.

-- In addition to four fully funded third-year thesis fellowships, we offer three new scholarships for additional financial support:

for a first-year student self-identifying as a writer representing a marginalized voice.
for a first- or second-year student whose work engages topics of social justice, access, equity, or any socially/culturally relevant topics.
for support of a third-year student’s thesis (one award per genre, non-fellowship recipients).

-- MFA students have access to two sources of summer research support: the Cheuse Center Travel Grant and the Provost Summer Research Fellowship.

-- We've launched a Graduate Certificate in Publishing Practice that can dovetail with the MFA program so that graduates can earn both a terminal art degree and a professional credential (to jumpstart careers).

Add to these facts an award-winning, diverse faculty dedicated to the teaching of literature and literary art; an exciting Visiting Writers program that has recently featured CJ Hauser, Shane McCrae, Dan Beachy-Quick, Ruth Joffre, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Lawrence Weschler, Casey Cep, and D**g Li among many others; and a robust community of 60 writers (roughly 20-22 students per cohort) that become students' support systems during three years in the program and beyond and we think Mason might be the place for you!

10/24/2023

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Forty-five books (21 fiction, 24 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals.....

10/13/2023

Fall for the Book is back in-person for the 24th annual Fall for the Book Festival, October 12-15, 2022. View the full schedule here!

06/13/2023

Through a grant from Arts Fairfax, George Mason University students and faculty are helping youth in the Fairfax Detention Center express themselves through poetry.

05/03/2023

2023 WINNERS GMU Rinehart Fiction Award | $500 | Judge: Okezie Nwoka Winner: Brenna R. Fuhr ("Blessed are the Meek") "For using exceptional...

04/28/2023

April 27 and
Free screening I'm a Virgo and discussion.

5pm Info here
https://vfs.gmu.edu/events/14624

04/20/2023

GMU Creative Writing students are invited to spend a week exploring folklore and creative writing with former Mason professor Peggy Yocom in collaboration with Monson Arts, a residency program in Monson, Maine. This workshop would take place July 23 through July 29. Click the link in our bio for more info!

04/07/2023

🗣 Poets! Join scholar MaryAnn Salinas Vega for a presentation and subsequent poetry workshop on Friday, April 14 at 1 p.m.! If you are an undergraduate or graduate poet who writes about fatphobia or anti-blackness, sign up to read your work by clicking the link in our bio! ✨

04/04/2023

04/04/2023

Join the Cheuse Center for their Inaugural Cheuse Center Lecture with Azar Nafisi THIS TUESDAY, April 4! In her lecture, Azar Nafisi will be reflecting on current events to support women’s rights in Iran. Her speech will touch on the two countries she calls home and how totalitarianism should be confronted through imagination and ideas. This event will be held at the Stacy C. Sherwood Center and will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Reserve your tickets by clicking the link in our bio!

03/27/2023

Hey Patriots!

Our next speaker for the Spring 2023 Visiting Writers Series is Sarah Thankam Mathews!

This event will be held on Thursday April 6 from 7:30pm-8:30pm EST in the Fenwick Library Reading Room 2001!

See you there!

03/27/2023

It's Monday Patriots!

Let's start the week off with a laugh...or another brain teaser...?

The fact that my brain didn't stop to be able to pronounce this and still understand it...ah English~!

Have a great week everyone!

03/20/2023

NEXT THURSDAY: Join us in welcoming the next writer in the Spring 2023 Visiting Writers series, Casey Cep! This event will be held over Zoom and will begin at 7:30. Click the link in bio to RSVP!

Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which was a New York Times best-seller and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Economist, TIME, and President Barack Obama.

03/20/2023

Welcome back Patriots!

Hope you all had a great spring break!
...was any work accomplished during this break?

(Are you team Ross or Team Rachel?)

03/11/2023

03/07/2023

Summer Course Announcement!!

Hi patriots, looking to take some classes over the summer?
Why not take ENGH511 Course: Shakespearean Adaptations with Professor Denise Albanese!

This course will be on MTWR 4:30-6:35pm Online!!

Interested?? Sign up now!!

03/06/2023

Professor Keith Clark of the George Mason University English Department sits down with CHSS Ambassador, Jalen Stubbs, to discuss Black History Month, African...

02/27/2023

Happy Meme-Monday Patriots!

Let's kick start this week with a little brain workout!

Oof....does your head hurt like mine?
Who else had to sound this out?

02/23/2023

Finding home in literature.

02/20/2023

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: In all the years we’ve been together at Jungle Red–how many has that been?--there’s a topic we have all considered, and...