English Department

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.

Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre).

Jeffrey B. Griswold is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow in the English Department at George Mason University.

A professor of contemporary literature, film, and television, Christopher Pizzino is interested in the way storytelling connects to social, moral, political, and philosophical conversations in the modern world.

Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual writing, second language writing, translingualism, trauma studies, feminist rhetorics/rhetorical feminism

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.