English Department

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

Jennifer Linhart Wood is term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, where she teaches both literature and composition. She is the author of Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive (Palgrave, 2019), which won the 2021 Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s David Bevington Award for Best New Book, and the editor of Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance Objects (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022). She has articles published or forthcoming in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Shakespeare Studies, the Shakespearean International Yearbook, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and various edited collections. Her current book project examines cues for music and sound effects in early modern dramatic texts.

New lab gives students access to best practices for writing, communication

When Mason alum Miriam Van Scott was working as a freelance writer in the mid-1990s, she was researching an article about the afterlife and realized what she needed was a compendium of all things related to the hell—so she wrote one.

Mason English major Jasmine Okidi’s dedication and accomplishments were rewarded recently with a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports exceptional students committed to research careers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Mason doctoral student Tanya Boucicaut wants to explore the nexus between hip-hop culture and Black Church culture in her native Virginia Beach, and she wants to do it in a documentary that looks at two major music festivals.

In March 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Mason graduate student and autism advocate Christine M. Condo published an essay in The Washington Post that changed her life.